Former Giro d’Italia stage winner Danilo Napolitano has been hit with a 20-year ban after being found guilty of anti-doping violations at Salus Ciclista Seregno, the junior team where he was a director. It was regarded as one of Italy’s elite junior outfits.
The president of the club, Marco Moretto, was banned for eight years.
Reports have linked Napolitano to the UAE L’Imad Women’s WorldTour team, where he was working at the service course as a warehouseman and staff assistant until recently, according to a report by road.cc. The team, which goes into next week’s Tour de France Femmes with one of the strongest squads, has denied all knowledg
