Matt DeCanio

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Matt DeCanio
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Personal information
Full nameMatthew DeCanio
Born (1977-04-05) April 5, 1977 (age 47)
Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.
Height5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight165 lb (75 kg)
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeAll-around
Amateur teams
1995-2001 US National Team
1995G.S. Mengoni-Hot Tubes
2010Olympique Cycliste Val d'Oise
Professional teams
1997-1998G.S. Filati Alessandra [1]
2000 Linda McCartney Racing Team
2001 Saturn Cycling Team
2002-2003Prime Alliance Cycling Team
2005Kodak Sierra Nevada Pro Cycling
Major wins
Stage races
Junior Killington Stage Race 1995
1st in Stage 3 Tour de Toona (USA) 2002
1st in Stage 4 Sea Otter Classic (USA) 2003

One-day races and Classics

17-18 National Time Trial Champion 1995

Matt DeCanio (born April 5, 1977) is an American ex-professional racing cyclist.

Contents

DeCanio is an outspoken critic of doping in the sport, and founded the Stolen Underground anti-doping movement after voluntarily confessing to performance-enhancing drug use and serving a two-year ban for doping. [2] [3]

DeCanio was sued in 2008 by convicted doper Kayle Leogrande for defamation, after publishing a recorded telephone call between himself and Suzanne Sonye, [4] although the suit was thrown out by a judge in the Superior Court of California. [5]

In 2010 he was making a comeback to cycling, racing for French amateur team Olympique Cycliste Val d'Oise. [6]

In 2022 DeCanio wrote an autobiography detailing his entire racing career and the fallout of him calling out Lance Armstrong and others for doping, long before Armstrong admitted it. He reveals in his book how he was seen as crazy for bringing to light all the doping in the sport, as well as blacklisted, slandered, and threatened. [7]

Palmares

1995
1st Junior Killington Stage Race [8]
1st MaillotUSA.PNG 17-18 Junior Time Trial Championships [9]
3rd Stage 4 Tour of the Gila
1996
5th Stage 3 Hessen Rundfahrt
1999
17th ITT, U-23 World Championships
2001
10th Stage 10 (ITT) Tour de Langkawi
3rd Overall Tour of Willamette [10]
3rd Stage 2 Tour of the Gila
2002
2nd Overall Tour de Toona [11]
1st Stage 3
2nd Overall Tour de Beauce [12]
3rd and Jersey yellow.svg Stage 4 [13]
3rd Stage 7
2003
5th Overall Sea Otter Classic (USA)
10th Stage 2 (ITT)
1st Stage 4
2nd Copa America de Ciclismo, São Paulo (BRA)
3rd Stage 2 Solano Bicycle Classic (USA)
3rd Stage 1 Fitchburg Longsjo Classic, Royal Plaza Fitchburg (USA)

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