Matteo Priamo (born 20 March 1982 in

Castelfranco Veneto Castelfranco Veneto ( vec, Casteło) is a town and ''comune'' of Veneto, northern Italy, in the province of Treviso, by rail from the town of Treviso. It is approximately inland from Venice. History The town originates from a castle built her ...

) is an Italian professional

road bicycle racer Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common ...

, previously of

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team . Priamo's teammate

Emanuele Sella Emanuele Sella (born 9 January 1981) is an Italian former road racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2004 and 2015 for the , and teams. Doping In out-of-competition control testing, on 23 July 2008, Vicenza-born Sella was found ...

, who had won three stages and the mountains classification at the

2008 Giro d'Italia The 2008 Giro d'Italia was the 91st running of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It began in Palermo on 10 May and ended in Milan on 1 June. Twenty-two teams entered the race, which was won by Spaniard Alberto Contador of the cyc ...

, tested positive for methoxy polyethylene glycol-epoetin beta (better known as Mircera, an

erythropoietin Erythropoietin (; EPO), also known as erythropoetin, haematopoietin, or haemopoietin, is a glycoprotein cytokine secreted mainly by the kidneys in response to cellular hypoxia; it stimulates red blood cell production (erythropoiesis) in the bon ...

derivative) at an out-of-competition control run by the UCI. After confessing to his doping he named Priamo as his supplier. Though the Italian National Anti-Doping tribunal originally exonerated Priamo, the

Court of Arbitration for Sport The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS; french: Tribunal arbitral du sport, ''TAS'') is an international body established in 1984 to settle disputes related to sport through arbitration. Its headquarters are in Lausanne, Switzerland and its c ...

ruled, upon appeal by the

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, that he should be suspended for four years.

Palmarès

;2004 :5th

Gran Premio della Liberazione Gran Premio della Liberazione is an Italian road bicycle race that has been held annually on 25 April since 1946. It marks the anniversary of the 1945 fall of Benito Mussolini's Italian Social Republic. It is a Single-day race that is rated 1.2 ...

;2005 :1st GP di Poggiana :1st Trofeo G. Bianchin :1st GP Citta' di Felino :2nd

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:3rd Gran Premio San Giuseppe ;2007 :1st Stage 2

Circuit de Lorraine The Circuit de Lorraine is a multi-stage road bicycle racing event held annually in Lorraine, France. Since 2005, it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competi ...

:2nd

Giro di Toscana The Giro di Toscana is a road bicycle race held annually in Tuscany, Italy. From 2005 to 2014, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race was not held in 2015. On 4 April 2016 it was announced that the race wil ...

:5th

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, National Road Championships ;2008 :1st Stage 6 Giro d'Italia :

Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey The Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey ( tr, Cumhurbaşkanlığı Bisiklet Turu) is a professional road bicycle racing stage race held annually in Turkey since 1963. In 2005 the race became part of the UCI Europe Tour, UCI race classificat ...

:1st Stage 3 & 5

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* * 1982 births Living people People from Castelfranco Veneto Italian male cyclists Italian Giro d'Italia stage winners Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey stage winners Cyclists from the Province of Treviso {{Italy-cycling-bio-1980s-stub