Matteo Priamo | |
Fullname: | Matteo Priamo |
Birth Date: | 1982 3, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Castelfranco Veneto, Italy |
Currentteam: | Suspended |
Discipline: | Road |
Role: | Rider |
Proyears1: | 2006 - 2008 |
Majorwins: | Giro d'Italia, 1 stage (2008) |
Matteo Priamo (born 20 March 1982 in Castelfranco Veneto) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, previously of UCI Professional Continental team .
Priamo's teammate Emanuele Sella, who had won three stages and the mountains classification at the 2008 Giro d'Italia, tested positive for methoxy polyethylene glycol-epoetin beta (better known as Mircera, an erythropoietin derivative) at an out-of-competition control run by the UCI.[1] After confessing to his doping[2] he named Priamo as his supplier. Though the Italian National Anti-Doping tribunal originally exonerated Priamo,[3] the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled, upon appeal by the Italian National Olympic Committee, that he should be suspended for four years.[4]