Óscar Sevilla

Óscar Miguel Sevilla Ribera ( born September 29, 1976 in Ossa de Montiel in Albacete ) is a Spanish cyclist.

Career

Seville is professional since 1998 and was until 2003 the team Kelme. In 2004 he rode for Phonak Cycling Team and from 2005 to July 2006 for the T -Mobile team. In the 2007 season he rode for the second-class cycling team Relax- GAM Fuenlabrada. Since the 2008 season, he drives for the team rock racing.

Seville was after his victory in the youth classification of the Tour de France and the second place in the Tour of Spain in 2001 as one of the largest Spanish -coming talents, but was unable to build on this success in a row. Seville has become a reliable team driver with strengths in the mountains. His weakness is the time trial.

Doping scandal

On the morning of June 30, 2006 Sevilla was suspended together with Jan Ullrich and his advisor Rudy Pevenage by the team led by T-Mobile, he therefore could not compete in the 2006 Tour de France. For suspension occurred in doping scandal Fuentes result of new facts. Sevilla and Ullrich had always denied being entangled. The Spanish legal system, however, had handed over documents that were serious doubts about the veracity of the claims of innocence of the two drivers, according to the T- Mobile line. On July 21, Ullrich and Sevilla was terminated because she had not previously provided the announced of them proof of innocence.

Once in October 2006 by the Spanish Federation until further proceedings against the suspected cyclists were recruited, Seville received at the beginning of the 2007 season a contract with the second-rate Spanish team Relax- Gam. Since 2008 he rode for the U.S. team rock racing. In early 2010 moved Seville, who lives in Colombia, to a small Colombian team. In August of the same year he tested positive at the Columbia cruise on a drug that increases the volume of blood, and was from the International Cycling Union Cycliste International Union (UCI ) suspended then.

In 2011, he stands at the Continental Team Gobernación de Antioquia Antioquia - Indeportes under contract.

Achievements

  • 4th place Tour de Romandie
  • Youth classification winner and 7th Tour de France
  • 5th Place Tour of Catalonia
  • 4th Burgos Tour
  • 2nd place Vuelta a España
  • 4th Vuelta a España
  • Appreciation and a stage Vuelta a Asturias
  • A stage Tour of Catalonia
  • A stage in the Vuelta a Asturias
  • Appreciation Vuelta a Chihuahua
  • Appreciation Vuelta Mexico
  • A stage and team time trial Vuelta a Colombia
  • Two stages and team time trial Vuelta a Colombia
  • A stage and Appreciation Vuelta Mexico
  • A stage and Appreciation Vuelta a Colombia
  • A stage and Appreciation Tour do Rio

Team

Rock Racing-Murcia Operación Puerto doping case Volta a Catalunya Vuelta a Burgos 2001 Tour de France Vuelta Chihuahua Internacional Francesco Moser Dietrich Thurau Henk Lubberding Peter Winnen Fabio Parra Andrew Hampsten Fabrice Philipot Gilles Delion Marco Pantani Francisco Mancebo Ivan Basso Yaroslav Popovych Damiano Cunego Alberto Contador Pierre Rolland (cyclist)
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