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Giro d'Italia 1997 : the real numbers of doping |
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The table below establishes, team by team, the count of the riders who have been or will be subsequently "pinned" in doping cases.
Teams | Riders | Pinned | Top 10 | Pinned | Podium | Pinned |
Mapei - GB | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
AKI - Safi | 10 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Amore & Vita | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Asics - CGA | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Batik - Del Monte | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Brescialat - Oyster | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cantina Tollo - Carrier - Starplast | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Festina - Lotus | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kelme - Costa Blanca - Eurosport | 10 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Kross - Montanari - Selle Italia | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mercatone Uno | 10 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Maglificio MG - Technogym | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ceramiche Refin - Mobilvetta Design | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Roslotto - ZG Mobili | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ros Mary - Minotti Italia - Ideal | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Saeco - Estro | 10 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Scrigno - Gaerne | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Polti | 10 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Total | 180 | 82 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 2 |
Pourcentage | 46% | 70% | 67% |
Pinned: Number of riders who violated the anti-doping rules.
Included in this category: riders who have been tested positive (including refuse to submit to doping control or hematocrit> 50%), having acknowledged having doped, having been sanctioned (by the justice, their federation or their team).
Not included (for example) : those whose sample B was negative.
Top 10: number of riders present in the top 10 of the final general classification.
Podium: number of riders present in the first 3 of the final general classification.
Other data :
Ranking source : www.procyclingstats.com (05/09/2020)
The ranking as it would be if we excluded all racers "pinned" in doping cases during their career.
The list of participants by team
31 years of existence, 26 cases, ie 0,84 per year
1. Tonkov Pavel - 1999 : blood test (sanction not known)
2. Bugno Gianni - 1994 : positive control ; 1997 : judicial investigation (no penalty) ; 1999 : in the act
3. Di Grande Giuseppe - 2001 : in the act
4. Bramati Davide
5. Faresin Gianni - 2000 : blood test (sanction not known)
6. Lanfranchi Paolo
7. Missaglia Gabriele - 2001 : in the act (sanction not known) ; 2005 : police investigation (sanction not known)
8. Pianegonda Gianluca
9. Svorada Jan
10. Spruch Zbigniew
27 years of existence, 13 cases, ie 0,48 per year
11. Faustini Stefano
12. Cauz Michelangelo
13. Calzavara Leonardo
14. Dalla Costa Oscar
15. Leoni Endrio - 2001 : in the act ; 2002 : positive control
16. Radaelli Mauro
17. Murtas Emiliano
18. Honchar Sergei - 1999 : blood test ; 2007 : blood test
19. Miceli Nicola - 1998 : blood test
20. Zanette Denis - 2001 : in the act (sanction not known)
33 years of existence, 9 cases, ie 0,27 per year
21. Forconi Riccardo - 1998 : positive control ; 2001 : positive control
22. Magnusson Glenn
23. Larsen Nicolay Bo - 2000 : blood test
24. Meloni Filippo - 1999 : blood test
25. Mondini Gianpaolo - 2001 : in the act
26. Vergnani Marco
27. Giacomelli Sandro
28. Andriotto Dario - 2001 : in the act (no penalty)
29. Laddomada Michele - 2007 : positive control
30. Patuelli Andrea
3 years of existence, 3 cases, ie 1 per year
31. Baronti Alessandro - 2003 : positive control
32. Zaina Enrico
33. Chiesa Mario - 1993 : police investigation (no penalty)
34. Bonetti Enrico
35. Simeoni Filippo - 1993 : confessions in 1999 (no penalty) ; 2001 : positive control
36. Molinari Maurizio
37. Pozzi Oscar
38. Shefer Alexandre
39. Roscioli Fabio
40. Noe Andrea
5 years of existence, 13 cases, ie 2,6 per year
41. Berzin Evgueni - 1997 : absence to control (no penalty) ; 2000 : blood test
42. Brignoli Ermanno - 1998 : senate inquiry (no penalty) ; 2001 : in the act
43. Brognara Andrea
44. Cenghialta Bruno - 199x : judicial investigation (sanction not known)
45. Colombo Gabriele
46. Frattini Francesco
47. Meier Armin - 1998 : confessions in 1998 ; 1998 : blood test, urine, hair
48. Minali Nicola - 1997 : absence to control (no penalty) ; 1998 : senate inquiry (no penalty)
49. Spezialetti Alessandro - 2004 : in the act
50. Volpi Alberto - 1993 : positive control (no penalty) ; 1997 : absence to control (no penalty)
13 years of existence, 2 cases, ie 0,15 per year
51. Belli Wladimir
52. Bontempi Fabrizio
53. Contrini Daniele
54. Della Vedova Marco
55. Frattini Cristiano
56. Milesi Marco
57. Piccoli Mariano - 1999 : police investigation (sanction not known) ; 1999 : positive control (no penalty) ; 2001 : police investigation (no penalty) ; 2005 : police investigation (sanction not known) ; 2010 : police investigation ; 201x : judicial investigation (no penalty)
58. Pumar Omar
59. Sgambelluri Roberto - 2002 : positive control
60. Velo Marco - 1994 : positive control ; 1999 : positive control ; 2000 : positive control
12 years of existence, 16 cases, ie 1,33 per year
61. Valoti Paolo
62. Pozzi Alessandro 2
63. Pierdomenico Germano
64. Peschel Uwe
65. Hvastija Martin - 2001 : in the act
66. Gentili Massimiliano
67. Dolci Andrea - 1998 : blood test
68. Di Silvestro Lorenzo
69. Di Renzo Marco-antonio
70. Paluan Andrea - 2009 : positive control
12 years of existence, 31 cases, ie 2,58 per year
71. Bortolami Gianluca - 1998 : confessions (sanction not known) ; 1999 : judicial search (sanction not known) ; 2000 : blood test (sanction not known) ; 2003 : positive control
72. Boscardin Bruno
73. Garcia Casas Felix Manuel
74. Halgand Patrice
75. Hernandez Jaime
76. Jeker Fabian
77. Laurent Thierry - 1995 : confessions in 2000 (sanction not known) ; 1996 : positive control ; 1997 : confessions in 2003 (sanction not known) ; 1997 : blood test
78. Lebreton Lylian - 1994 : confessions in 1998 (sanction not known) ; 1996 : confessions in 1998 (sanction not known)
79. Wust Marcel
80. Tebaldi Valerio
36 years of existence, 27 cases, ie 0,75 per year
81. Dominguez Juan-carlos - 1998 : blood test ; 2006 : blood test
82. Gonzales Arsenio
83. Edo Angel - 1998 : blood test
84. Serrano Rodriguez Marcos-antonio - 1998 : senate inquiry (no penalty)
85. Buenahora Hernan - 2006 : positive control ; 2008 : positive control
86. Gonzalez-pico José-jaime - 2001 : in the act
87. Rubiera Vigil José-luis
88. Cabello Francisco - 1994 : positive control (5 times)
89. Gomez Gonzalo José Javier
90. Vidal Jose-angel
29 years of existence, 27 cases, ie 0,93 per year
91. Pulnikov Vladimir
92. Roncancio Gonzalez Celio-roberto
93. Gili Marco - 1997 : positive control ; 2004 : positive control
94. Lozano Moncada Alvaro
95. Davidenko Vassili - 2001 : positive control
96. Biasci Simone - 200x : positive control
97. Calzolari Alessandro
98. Citracca Angelo
99. Moretti Roberto - 1997 : positive control
100. Giraldi Stefano
7 years of existence, 19 cases, ie 2,71 per year
101. Pantani Marco - 1993 : medical control (sanction not known) ; 1995 : medical control + poursuites judiciaires ; 1998 : senate inquiry (no penalty) ; 1999 : blood test ; 2001 : in the act
102. Podenzana Massimo - 1986 : positive control
103. Pellicioli Oscar
104. Garzelli Stefano - 2002 : positive control
105. Traversoni Mario
106. Bottaro Dario
107. Borgheresi Simone - 2001 : police investigation (sanction not known)
108. Conti Roberto - 2002 : in the act
109. Barbero Sergio - 2001 : positive control
110. Siboni Marcello - 2001 : in the act
7 years of existence, 8 cases, ie 1,14 per year
111. Baldato Fabio
112. Casagranda Stefano - 2000 : in the act
113. Bettini Paolo
114. Coppolillo Michele - 1999 : positive control (no penalty)
115. Fontanelli Fabiano - 1996 : positive control ; 2001 : blood test
116. Lecchi Angelo
117. Pistore Roberto
118. Santaromita Mauro-antonio - 1997 : blood test ; 199x : blood test (no penalty)
119. Loda Nicola - 1999 : positive control (no penalty)
120. Simoni Gilberto - 1998 : blood test ; 2002 : positive control (no penalty) ; 2002 : positive control (no penalty)
2 years of existence, 1 case, ie 0,5 per year
121. Piepoli Leonardo - 2007 : positive control (2 times) ; 2008 : positive control (2 times)
122. Puttini Felice
123. Mazzanti Luca
124. Aggiano Elio
125. Balducci Gabriele
126. Ouslamine Serguei
127. Steinhauser Tobias
128. Werner Jurgen
129. Lietti Marco
130. Bettin Mauro
9 years of existence, 10 cases, ie 1,11 per year
131. Ferrigato Andrea
132. Fincato Marco
133. Ugrumov Piotr - 1995 : judicial investigation (sanction not known)
134. Konyshev Dimitri
135. Djavanian Viatcheslav
136. Schmidt Torsten
137. Savoldelli Paolo - 2005 : disciplinary investigation
138. Padrnos Pavel - 2001 : in the act (sanction not known)
139. Manzoni Mario - 1998 : blood test
140. Sivakov Alexei
19 years of existence, 7 cases, ie 0,37 per year
141. Bobrik Vladislav
142. Caruso Roberto
143. De Paoli Daniele - 2001 : in the act
144. Dotti Fausto
145. Galletti Alessio - 2000 : in the act ; 2004 : in the act
146. Finesso Stefano
147. Poser Michel
148. Tani David - 2006 : positive control (sanction not known) ; 200x : confessions in 2005 (sanction not known)
149. Tomi Maurizio
150. Scopsi Manuel
15 years of existence, 20 cases, ie 1,33 per year
151. Gotti Ivan - 1998 : blood test (sanction not known) ; 2001 : in the act
152. Cipollini Mario - 1998 : senate inquiry (no penalty)
153. Calcaterra Giuseppe - 1998 : senate inquiry (no penalty)
154. Donati Massimo
155. Fagnini Gianmatteo
156. Fornaciari Paolo
157. Frigo Dario - 1996 : confessions in 2001 (sanction not known) ; 2001 : confessions in 2001 ; 2005 : judicial investigation and confessions
158. Moos Alexandre
159. Petito Roberto - 1997 : positive control (no penalty)
160. Scirea Mario - 2004 : in the act
42 years of existence, 17 cases, ie 0,4 per year
161. Casagrande Filippo - 1999 : positive control (no penalty)
162. Casagranda Stefano - 2000 : in the act
163. Secchiari Francesco
164. Barbagli Alessio
165. Apollonio Massimo - 1998 : blood test
166. Vatteroni Andrea
167. Gasperoni Cristian
168. Rossato Mirko
169. Gallorini Sauro
170. Alberati Paolo - 1998 : blood test
18 years of existence, 8 cases, ie 0,44 per year
171. Leblanc Luc - 1994 : confessions in 2000 (no penalty) ; 1998 : confessions (no penalty)
172. Merckx Axel - 1998 : senate inquiry (no penalty)
173. Brasi Rossano - 2000 : blood test
174. Cassani Enrico - 2003 : positive control
175. Celestino Mirko
176. Crepaldi Mirko - 2018 : police investigation (sanction not known)
177. Gualdi Mirko
178. Guerini Giuseppe
179. Ouchakov Sergueï - 1998 : judicial investigation (no penalty)
180. Sacchi Fabio - 1998 : senate inquiry (no penalty) ; 2002 : in the act