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Simoni might have won a third Giro, but in 2002 he tested positive for cocaine and was withdrawn from the race by his Saeco team-he was later cleared of any doping violation by the Italian Cycling Federation.
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* Giro d ' Italia won by Gilberto Simoni of Italy
* Giro d ' Italia won by Gilberto Simoni of Italy
Simoni confirmed his potential in 1993, when he won both the amateur version of the Giro d ' Italia ( known as the Baby Giro ) and the Italian Road Cycling Championship.
It was only three years later in 1997 that Simoni won his first professional race, a stage of the Giro del Trentino, while riding for the team of sports director Giancarlo Ferretti.
Simoni started the 2001 Giro d ' Italia as Lampre's undisputed leader and hope for the general classification, which he won with a comfortable margin.
After a strong performance in which he finished second in the Giro di Lombardia ( which was won by Cunego in the previous edition ), Simoni signed a contract to join.
He was replaced by Luigi Simoni whose side finished second in the league in the 1997 – 98 season and won the UEFA Cup.
The Saeco team won the Giro d ' Italia in 1997 with Ivan Gotti, in 2003 with Gilberto Simoni, and in 2004 with Damiano Cunego.
Simoni and third
Second and third were the Italian Gilberto Simoni and Venezuelan José Rujano.
However, a resurgent Simoni joined the team in 1999 and finished a surprising third on the general classification of that year's Giro d ' Italia.
Simoni and Giro
Important riders who were not present were Jan Ullrich ( 2nd last year, injury ) and Gilberto Simoni ( winner 2001 Giro ).
The high point of his career to date was his overall win in the 2000 Giro d ' Italia, after a close three-way competition with Gilberto Simoni and Francesco Casagrande.
Garzelli was able to mount a come-back for the 2003 Giro d ' Italia and was able to challenge eventual winner Gilberto Simoni in the race.
Simoni is twice winner of the Giro d ' Italia cycling race ( 2001 and 2003 editions ).
Simoni was born in Palù di Giovo, in Trentino, and began competing as an amateur with the goal of someday winning the Giro d ' Italia.
Prior to his retirement in 2010, Simoni would reveal to the Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport that the Giro was the one race that attracted him to cycling and which motivated him as a professional.
In a race that saw another mercurial Italian climber thrown-off the Giro for doping ( Marco Pantani ), Simoni was criticized in some sectors of the press for claiming a podium finish without having earned the placing.
The 2000 season started well for Simoni: he'd transferred to the top-ranked team of two-time Giro d ' Italia winner Giuseppe Saronni and went on to again finish on the podium of the Giro d ' Italia.
Following his Giro victory Simoni moved to the team with the goal of repeating his Giro success of the previous year.
In 2003, the Saeco team came to the Giro d ' Italia with the sole purpose of supporting Simoni.
After epic battles with a resurgent Stefano Garzelli, Yaroslav Popovych and Marco Pantani in the high mountains in a hailstorm, Simoni cemented his second Giro d ' Italia victory.
Simoni failed to defend his title in the 2004 Giro d ' Italia with the emergence of his teammate Damiano Cunego.
In the 2005 Giro d ' Italia the team took advantage of the publicity and played up the rivalry between Simoni and Cunego, boasting their strength for the Giro.
The early part of the Giro saw Cunego lose significant time in the early mountain stages-later diagnosed with Epstein-Barr viral infection-firmly establishing Simoni as the team leader for the Giro.
Simoni and tested
After the wildcards were given, it was announced that Saeco's main rider Gilberto Simoni had tested positive for cocaine on two occasions.
Simoni and for
It contained most contenders for the general classification, but Gilberto Simoni and Santiago Botero were not in there, and lost over 6 minutes to Lance Armstrong and the others.
CVS was performed for the first time by Italian biologist Giuseppe Simoni, scientific director of Biocell Center, in 1983.
Facilities include the 2, 500-seat Klein Family Field for baseball, the 350-seat Bill Simoni Field for softball, the 6, 150-seat Alex G. Spanos Center for basketball and volleyball, the 30, 000-seat Amos Alonzo Stagg Memorial Stadium for soccer ( and high school football ), the Hal Nelson Tennis Courts and the Chris Kjeldsen Pool.
Gilberto Simoni ( born August 25, 1971 in Palù di Giovo, Trentino ) is an Italian ex-professional road bicycle racer, most recently for.
1998 was another disappointing season for Simoni, and his results sheet was barren after a year spent with the team.
On the urging of his frame sponsor, Scott USA, Simoni began competing in mountain bike marathon events during the 2006 off-season for road bicycle racing.
After a lengthy search for a team for 2010, that included negotiations with his previous team as well as with and, Simoni re-joined his former Lampre squaddra, rechristened as.
Simoni was characteristically frank about his last bid for glory, which poignantly saw him beaten in the sprint for the Cima Coppi KOM prize by the Swiss Johann Tschopp, at the summit of the Passo di Gavia in the penultimate Giro stage.
Mobbed at the finish line by Italian media looking for one final quote from a rider who rarely hesitated to speak his mind, Simoni mused:
But after finally calling it quits on a professional career that included nearly 600 classified results in UCI-sanctioned events, Simoni was vague concerning his plans for his life after cycling, though he hinted at not being in a rush or under any economic or psychological pressure to immediately engage in a new venture.
Simoni and was
Antonio began his musical studies in his native town of Legnago ; he was first taught at home by his older brother Francesco Salieri ( a former student of the violinist and composer Giuseppe Tartini ), and he received further lessons from the organist of the Legnago Cathedral, Giuseppe Simoni, a pupil of Padre Giovanni Battista Martini.
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni ( 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564 ), commonly known as Michelangelo (), was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.
He performed such miracles by magic acts during the reign of Claudius that he was regarded as a god and honored with a statue on the island in the Tiber which the two bridges cross, with the inscription Simoni Deo Sancto, " To Simon the Holy God ".
Montand was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italy to Giuseppina ( née Simoni ) and Giovanni Livi, a broommaker.
This altar bears the inscription seen and misread by S. Justin ( Semoni Sanco Deo read as Simoni Deo Sancto ) and was discovered on the island in July, 1574.
Justin Martyr records that Simon Magus, a gnostic mentioned in the Christian Bible, performed such miracles by magic acts during the reign of Claudius that he was regarded as a god and honored with a statue on the island in the Tiber which the two bridges cross, with the inscription Simoni Deo Sancto, " To Simon the Holy God ".
Before the race, it was believed that his main rivals would include Iban Mayo, Aitor González, Tyler Hamilton, Ivan Basso, Gilberto Simoni, Jan Ullrich, and Joseba Beloki but Armstrong was odds-on favorite.
There was a very early break of seventeen riders, including Richard Virenque, Gilberto Simoni, Jakob Piil and Manuel Beltran.
On December 25, 1992, aged 53, he was appointed the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tiranë-Durrës and ordained on April 25, 1993 by Pope John Paul II and Cardinals Camillo Ruini and Jozef Tomko, along with three other bishops ( Zef Simoni, Frano Illia and Robert Ashta ) during the Pope's pastoral visit to Albania.
Giovanni Benelli was born in Poggiole di Vernio, Tuscany, to Luigi and Maria ( née Simoni ) Benelli.
Another was General Simone Simoni, a war hero aged 64, who had endured torture with a blowtorch.
He returned to Puerto Principe and married Amalia Simoni y Argilagos on August 1868, a woman who was the love of his life and whose family had considerably more wealth than his own.
In 1995, after Ventre's death the choir was taken by Sabrina Simoni and changed its name to Piccolo Coro " Mariele Ventre " dell ' Antoniano.
Simoni is a native of Palu di Giovo, and was considered a climbing specialist.
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