rebellion.
His name is attached to the years 1990-2000.
GM, Polti, La Française des Jeux, Liquigas and Gerolsteiner made the little Italian one of the stars of the peloton.
Davide Rebellin had an incredible spring in 2004 by winning the Amstel Gold race, the Flèche Wallonne (a race he won three times) and Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
His prize list also includes Paris-Nice (2008) and the Clasica San Sebastian (1997).
His career was also marred by doping.
Silver medalist at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, he had to return his medal following a positive test for Cera.
He had received a two-year suspension.
"
A very controversial case, for which he was acquitted by the court of Padua seven years later: he had always claimed his innocence
", recalls La Gazzetta dello Sport.
"
It bothered me a lot in my career
," he explained to AFP in 2016.
After my suspension, I resumed in small teams because I had the door closed everywhere, especially in large formations. .”
The Italian (51) then took pleasure in stretching his long career (1992-2022, i.e.… 30 seasons) until this season under the colors of the Italian formation Work Service Vitalcare Vega, after playing in Serbian teams. , Algerian-Belgian, Kuwaiti or Polish.
“My cycling is pure passion
,” he summed up one day in La Gazzetta dello Sport.
Mowed down by a truck during a training ride
He was hit on Wednesday by a truck during a training outing.
“According to a first reconstruction reported by Il Gazzettino, the truck leaving the nearby motorway slip road struck and overturned the man on a bicycle, who died instantly,”
reports Il Messagero.
The driver reportedly fled.
“
Another tragedy on the road
”, underlines La Gazzetta dellop Sport.
Italian Michele Scarponi, winner of the Tour of Italy in 2011, died in 2017 after being hit by a van during a training outing.
“
My condolences to the family and friends of Davide Rebellin, colleague and rival for so many years
”, quickly reacted Alejandro Valverde.