Matteo Priamo

Matteo Priamo
Personal information
Full name	Matteo Priamo
Born	20 March 1982 (age 43); Castelfranco Veneto, Italy
Team information
Current team	Suspended
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional team
2006–2008	Ceramica Panaria–Navigare
Major wins
	Giro d'Italia, 1 stage (2008)

Matteo Priamo (born 20 March 1982 in Castelfranco Veneto) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, previously of UCI Professional Continental team CSF Group–Navigare.

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Priamo's CSF Group–Navigare teammate Emanuele Sella, who had won three stages and the mountains classification at the 2008 Giro d'Italia, tested positive for methoxy polyethylene glycol-epoetin beta (better known as Mircera, an erythropoietin derivative) at an out-of-competition control run by the UCI.^[1] After confessing to his doping^[2] he named Priamo as his supplier. Though the Italian National Anti-Doping tribunal originally exonerated Priamo,^[3] the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled, upon appeal by the Italian National Olympic Committee, that he should be suspended for four years.^[4]

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