1. Diego Ulissi was born on 15 July 1989 and is an Italian road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam XDS Astana Team.
27 Facts About Diego Ulissi
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Diego Ulissi was awarded stage 17 of the 2011 Giro d'Italia after Giovanni Visconti was relegated for improper sprinting.
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Diego Ulissi won Stage 17 in his first appearance at the Giro d'Italia after Giovanni Visconti was relegated for improper sprinting.
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Diego Ulissi later won the queen stage and the overall classification in that year's Tour of Slovenia.
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Diego Ulissi then won three Italian classic races in the fall.
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Diego Ulissi won an uphill sprint in Coppa Sabatini a week later.
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Finally, days after, Diego Ulissi again jumped away from the leading group in the closing metres of the Giro dell'Emilia to take victory.
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Diego Ulissi took more stage victories in 2014, despite underperforming during the spring classics.
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Diego Ulissi won the second stage of the Tour Down Under, launching an early sprint to beat stage favourite Simon Gerrans.
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In 2016, Diego Ulissi returned to the Giro d'Italia and won two stages.
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On Stage 4, Diego Ulissi broke away from the leading group to beat Tom Dumoulin by five seconds.
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Diego Ulissi won the first individual time trial of his professional career on Stage 2 of the Tour of Slovenia, beating eventual general classification winner Rein Taaramae over a short and hilly parcours.
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Diego Ulissi won the general classification in the Presidential Tour of Turkey, his first overall victory in a World Tour stage race.
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Diego Ulissi won Stage 5 of the 2018 Tour de Suisse, overpowering Enric Mas in a sprint to the line.
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In 2019, Diego Ulissi took victory in the Gran Premio di Lugano in Switzerland.
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Diego Ulissi won Stage 3 and the general classification in the Tour of Slovenia and the test event for the road race at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
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In June 2014 it was announced that Diego Ulissi had failed a drug test on Stage 11 of that year's Giro d'Italia.
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Diego Ulissi tested positive for the asthma drug salbutamol, which is found in Ventolin.
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Diego Ulissi had received permission to use Ventolin to treat a bronchospasm.
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Diego Ulissi had received paracetamol from a race doctor after he was involved in a crash during the stage.
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Diego Ulissi appealed to the Union Cycliste Internationale for a controlled excretion study, as he could face a two-year suspension from racing.
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Diego Ulissi argued that his crash during the Giro's Stage 11 could have caused higher-than-expected levels of salbutamol.
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Diego Ulissi therefore received a reduced nine-month suspension, ending in March 2015.
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Diego Ulissi was named Diego Armando after Diego Maradona, his father's favourite football player.
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Diego Ulissi's mother, Donatella, works at a winery, while his father was a mountain bike racer.
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Diego Ulissi's father encouraged his passion for cycling, and Ulissi entered his first race in 1996.
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Diego Ulissi missed Anna's birth in March 2020 while in quarantine at the UAE Tour after four riders on UAE Team Emirates tested positive for COVID-19.