Daniele Nardello

Daniele Nardello at the 2006 Deutschland Tour in Düsseldorf

Daniele Nardello (born August 2, 1972 in Varese , Italy ) is a former Italian cyclist and current sports director .

Athletic career

Nardello began his professional career in 1994 with Team Mapei . In the total of eight years with this team, he was able to achieve considerable success. After moving to Team Telekom in 2003, he was initially unable to build on his earlier successes due to several injuries caused by falls. It wasn't until the end of the season that he managed to get onto the podium again in important races. In 2004 he started at the Summer Olympics in Athens and finished 35th in the road race .

Nardello competed eight times in the Tour de France . In 1998 he won a stage and was eighth overall. The following year, he finished seventh in the overall Tour standings .

In 2007 Daniele Nardello moved from Team T-Mobile to the Swiss Team LPR. After a fall at the Tour Down Under 2009 , Nardello was out of shape and announced the end of his career in March of the same year. On April 8, his contract with his employer Fuji-Servetto ended .

Conflict with Simeoni

Filippo Simeoni accused Nardello of sharply insulting him during the 18th stage of the 2004 Tour de France, supporting Lance Armstrong in a private feud against Simeoni. Nardello denied these allegations. The background to this was that Simeoni had testified as a witness that he had received doping substances from the medic Michele Ferrari , who also looked after Armstrong, whereupon Armstrong accused Simeoni of lying.

Professional

After his resignation, Nardello remained connected to cycling as sporting director. Initially, he worked for the Geox-TMC team, for which he last drove until he switched to GreenEdge in early 2012 .