Eddy Mazzoleni

Eddy Mazzoleni ( born September 29, 1973 in Bergamo ) is an Italian racing cyclist.

Career

Mazzoleni started his professional career in 1996 at the Italian Saeco team. In 2000 he spent a year with the team Polti. Then he went two years Tacconi - Vini Caldirola before he went back to Saeco 2003. From 2005 he was at Lampre- Caffita under contract, after which he drove a year for the T-Mobile team. For the 2007 season, he went to the Kazakh team Astana. His best finish in the Tour de France reached Mazzoleni in 2005 with the 13th Place. In the 2007 Giro d'Italia he went surprisingly out third overall.

Doping allegations

Eddy Mazzoleni is to have as many other cyclists and athletes, worked under suspicion with the alleged " doping doctor " Dr. Santuccione. This has been criticized in the wake of ongoing investigations since 2003 " Oil for Drugs" to have procured and administered doping agent. In a log of police florentienischen a conversation with Santuccione is noted, in which it comes to the use and procurement of erythropoietin (Epo ). This conversation took place shortly before the race Liège -Bastogne -Liège, where Mazzoleni was 13. In June 2010, Mazzoleni was sentenced 6500 euro fine for the trade in doping substances to a prison sentence of four months as well. In the same procedure, his wife Eliza, the sister of professional cyclists Ivan Basso, convicted in a court in Bergamo to one year's imprisonment was.

In the 2007 Giro d'Italia Mazzoleni delivered after the uphill finish on Monte Zoncolan a respected as suspicious doping test, as these had abnormally low hormone levels, which may represent an indication for the use of doping masking preparations.

Achievements

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