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• UCI Gives Di Luca Green Light To Race
  February 6th, 2011
  

  PARIS – World cycling chiefs have given former Tour of Italy champion Danilo Di Luca the green light to start competing again after the Italian paid a fine relating to [...]

• Di Luca To Race For Team Katusha
  January 10th, 2011
  

  ROME – Italy’s Danilo Di Luca, suspended for one and half years for doping, which is ending in January, has signed for the Russian Team Katusha, where he has no [...]

• Di Luca Doping Ban Gets Reduced For Talking
  October 15th, 2010
  

  ROME, Oct 15, 2010 (AFP) – Disgraced Italian Danilo Di Luca is set to return to competition in January 2011 after an anti-doping tribunal at the Italian Olympic Commitee (CONI) [...]

• Bosisio Gets Two-Year Doping Ban From Coni
  April 28th, 2010
  

  ROME, April 28, 2010 – Italian Gabriele Bosisio was on Wednesday hit with a two-year doping ban by the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) after testing positive for the banned blood-booster [...]

• Disgraced Di Luca Handed Handed Fine And Two-Year Ban
  February 1st, 2010
  

  ROME, Feb 1, 2010 (AFP) – Italian Danilo Di Luca was handed a two-year doping ban and a hefty fine by the Italian Olympic Commitee (CONI) on Monday. Di Luca, [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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. [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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, [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]