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• Prosecutor Asks For Three-Year Doping Ban For Di Luca
  December 17th, 2009
  

  Italy’s anti-doping prosecutor on Thursday asked the Italian Olympic Committee’s anti-doping tribunal to hit former Tour of Italy winner Danilo Di Luca with a three-year ban.
  Di Luca tested positive for the banned blood-booster EPO twice during May’s Tour of Italy, in which he finished second behind Russian Denis [...]

• Bosisio Pleads Innocence In Doping Case
  November 23rd, 2009
  

  ROME, Nov 23, 2009 (AFP) – Italian cyclist Gabriele Bosisio pleaded his innocence at a hearing with the Italian Olympic Committee’s Anti-doping prosecutor on Monday.
  The 29-year-old LPR rider was caught by an out-of-competition test in September which detected traces of the banned blood-booster EPO.
  “I’ve never taken EPO and I repeat that I am innocent,” [...]

• Di Luca Screaming Foul Over Positive CERA Tests
  August 26th, 2009
  

  Italian cyclist Danilo Di Luca on Wednesday claimed he was the victim of a conspiracy after twice testing positive for banned blood booster EPO (erythropoietin) during May’s Tour of Italy.
  Di Luca finished second in the event he previously won in 2007 but returned positive tests for the new-generation EPO [...]

• Kill(er) The Sport
  July 22nd, 2009
  

  Written by: Myles McCorry
  Last year, the International Cycling Union launched the most awaited tool to combat doping — the biological passport program. Although it has not yet identified any rider with the said programme, the UCI says that it would be revealing the first cases before May 9 2009, in time for the start of [...]

• Di Luca Suspended After Failing Drug Tests At Tour of Italy
  July 22nd, 2009
  

  LE GRAND BORNAND, France, July 22, 2009 (AFP) – Italian rider Danilo Di Luca has been provisionally suspended by the International Cycling Union (UCI) on Wednesday after failing two drug tests for EPO CERA during the Tour of Italy.
  The 33-year-old LPR team leader, who is not competing in the [...]

• Menchov Wins The Giro d’Italia Despite Dramatic Fall
  May 31st, 2009
  

  by Jean Montois
  ROME, May 31, 2009 (AFP) – Russian rider Denis Menchov won the Tour of Italy here on Sunday despite suffering a dramatic fall in the last kilometer of the final stage, a 14.4km time-trial round.
  The Rabobank cyclist, who is the third Russian to win [...]

• Gilbert Wins Giro 20th Stage, Menchov Keeps Pink
  May 30th, 2009
  

  by Jean Montois
  ANAGNI, Italy, May 30, 2009 (AFP) – Belgian Philippe Gilbert of the Lotto team won the 20th stage of the Tour of Italy over 203km from Naples to Anagni on Saturday as Russian Denis Menchov held onto the overall lead.
  Gilbert sprang away from the [...]

• Gerrans of Cervelo Powers To A Stage 14 Win, As Menchov Hold Giro Lead
  May 23rd, 2009
  

  by Jean Montois
  BOLOGNA, Italy, May 23, 2009 (AFP) – Australian Simon Gerrans of Cervelo sprinted clear on the brutal final 2km climb to claim victory in the 14th stage of the Tour of Italy over 172km from Campi Bisenzio to Bologna on Saturday.
  Russian Denis Menchov of [...]

• Di Luca Wins The Giro’s Longest Stage To Increase His Hold On Pink
  May 19th, 2009
  

  Danilo Di Luca tightened his grip on the race leader’s pink jersey by winning the 262km 10th stage of the Tour of Italy from Cuneo to Pinerolo on Tuesday.
  Italy’s 2007 champion, of the LPR team, attacked on the descent of the Pra Martino climb and left all his rivals [...]

• Di Luca Reinforces His Lead As Columbia Bags Another Stage
  May 16th, 2009
  

  by Jean Montois
  BERGAMO, Italy, May 16, 2009 (AFP) – Belarussian Kanstantsin Siutsou handed the Columbia team their third victory of the centenary Tour of Italy when he won the 209km eighth stage from Morbegno to Bergamo on Saturday.
  Race leader Danilo Di Luca retained the race leader’s [...]

• Armstrong ‘Will Target Giro Stage Win’, Says Di Luca
  May 14th, 2009
  

  MAYRHOFEN IM ZILLERTAL, Austria, May 14, 2009 (AFP) – America’s Lance Armstrong will target a stage win in the Giro d’Italia after falling off the pace in the overall standings, race leader Danilo Di Luca claimed on Thursday.
  “You mustn’t forget that he stopped competing for three years and fractured [...]

• Scarponi Solos To Win Giro Stage Six, While Di Luca Still Holds On To Pink Jersey
  May 14th, 2009
  

  MAYRHOFEN IM ZILLERTAL, Austria, May 14, 2009 (AFP) – Michele Scarponi of the Diquigiovanni team clinched a solo victory on the sixth stage of the Tour of Italy to claim his first career win in the race on Thursday.
  Fellow Italian Danilo Di Luca, of LPR, retained the race leader’s [...]

• As Menchov Wins Giro Fifth Stage, Di Luca Now In Pink
  May 13th, 2009
  

  by Jean Montois
  ALPE DI SIUSI, Italy, May 13, 2009 (AFP) – Russian Denis Menchov won an uphill sprint to claim the fifth stage of the Tour of Italy over 125km from San Martino di Castrozza to Alpe di Siusi on Wednesday as second-placed Danilo Di Luca took the leader’s [...]

• Di Luca Wins Giro’s Stage 4, While Lovkvist Is Wearing Pink
  May 12th, 2009
  

  Italy’s Danilo Di Luca raced his way to a victory on stage four of the Tour of Italy, the first foray into the mountains and where overnight leader Alessandro Petacchi was left trailing Tuesday.
  Sweden’s Thomas Lovkvist, riding for Columbia, took the race leader’s pink jersey from star sprinter Petacchi [...]

• Italy’s Eddy Mazzoleni ‘Oil for Drug’ Affair BAN – Two Years
  April 8th, 2008
  

  ROME, April 8, 2008 (AFP) – Eddy Mazzoleni, third in last year’s Tour of Italy (Giro d’Italia), has been handed a two-year ban by the Italian Cycling Federation (FCI) for his involvement in the “Oil for Drug” affair, the FCI said on Tuesday.
  The FCI also banned 28-year-old former Ceramica [...]

• Danilo Di Luca to appeal his three-month suspension
  December 16th, 2007
  

  The 2007Giro d’Italia winner, Danilo Di Luca has appealed his three-month suspension in the Oil for Drugs investigation. The 31 year old Italian from Abruzzo, is accused of using the services of Doctor Carlo Santuccione, has appealed the Italian Cycling Federation (FCI) Disciplinary Commission’s decision last October to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) [...]