Iban Mayo

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Iban Mayo Road cycling
Iban Mayo at the Giro d'Italia 2007.
Iban Mayo at the Giro d'Italia 2007 .
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Full name Iban Mayo Diez
Date of birth 19th August 1977
nation SpainSpain Spain
discipline Street
Driver type Mountain riders
doping
2007 two-year doping ban ( EPO )
Team (s)
2000-2006
2007 		Euskaltel-Euskadi
Saunier Duval-Scott
Most important successes

Tour of the Basque Country 2003
Dauphiné Libéré 2004
a stage Tour de France 2003
a stage Giro d'Italia 2007

Last updated: August 12, 2008

Iban Mayo Diez (born August 19, 1977 in Igorre , Spain ) is a former Basque cyclist .

Career

He almost had to give up Mayo's plan to become a professional racing cyclist when he broke his legs in a car accident in 1996.

In 2000 he became a professional with the Basque team Euskaltel-Euskadi . A year later, Mayo first attracted attention with victories in the Midi Libre and Classique des Alpes races . He won the mountain stage up to L'Alpe d'Huez in the 2003 Tour de France and finished sixth in the overall standings after winning the Tour of the Basque Country in the spring .

In 2004, Mayo won the overall ranking of the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré after several victories in early summer . Among other things, he distanced Lance Armstrong by more than two minutes in a mountain time trial up to Mont Ventoux . In the subsequent Tour de France 2004 , Mayo gave up after the 14th stage after falling in the first week of the tour and being a big deficit in the overall standings.

In 2007 Mayo left the Euskaltel-Euskadi team and switched to the UCI ProTeam Saunier Duval-Prodir . He had previously turned down a 2-year contract offered by Euskaltel-Euskadi . The spring of 2007 was not very successful for Mayo. In early summer, however, he achieved a success at the Giro d'Italia when he was able to win the 19th stage of this tour as an outlier. At the 8th stage of the 2007 Tour de France in July 2007, he finished second behind Michael Rasmussen at the mountain finish in Tignes .

Mayo's successes in 2007 were overshadowed by the conspicuous results of doping tests: While a considerably excessive testosterone value during the Giro d'Italia was considered a natural deviation of Mayo's organism by the UCI, it was announced on July 30, 2007 that he was tested positive for EPO in an A-sample of a doping control carried out during the second rest day of the Tour de France . His team Saunier Duval-Prodir immediately suspended him. Iban Mayo denied any doping on July 31, 2007.

The Spanish cycling association RFEC announced on October 22, 2007 that the B-sample was negative and closed the proceedings against him. The following day, however, the anti-doping officer of the UCI Anne Gripper stated that the B-sample had not yet been completely analyzed. The “non-negative” result of the B-sample in Ghent still has to be confirmed by an analysis of the remains of the B-sample in Paris. The laboratories there have different test routines.

The counter-analysis of the B-sample carried out in mid-December, which was ordered by the UCI after the controversial acquittal of Mayo by the RPEC, confirmed the positive A-sample. Mayo filed a lawsuit at the CAS Sports Court against the two-year ban that was then issued , which was dismissed on August 12, 2008. The now legally binding doping ban has been in effect retrospectively since July 31, 2007, with Mayo's ban ending at the end of July 2009.

Since then, Iban Mayo has not been active in professional cycling.

successes

2001
2003
2004
2006
2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fingerfood.typepad.com of July 16, 2007: A calm before the big climbs
  2. ↑ 15th stage started without Iban Mayo. radsport-news.com, July 20, 2004, accessed February 3, 2015 .
  3. ↑ A Moral Loser Mayo understands Armstrong's rush. tagesspiegel.de, July 8, 2004, accessed February 3, 2015 .
  4. ↑ spiegel.de of July 30, 2007: "Tour de France - mountain specialist Mayo was doped"
  5. ↑ radsport-news.com of July 31, 2017: "Mayo: It is impossible, it is impossible ... "
  6. ↑ radsport-news.com of October 22, 2007: "Mayo relieved: B-sample negative"
  7. ↑ radsport-news.com of October 23, 2007: "Fall Mayo: UCI denies Spanish version"
  8. ↑ radsport-news.com of August 12, 2008: "CAS bans Mayo for two years"
personal data
SURNAME Mayo, Iban
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Iban Mayo Diez
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Basque cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Igorre , Spain