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Georg Preidler (born 17 June 1990) is an Austrian cyclist, who is currently suspended from the sport after being implicated in the ''
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'' doping scandal.


Career

Preidler was born in
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, Austria. As a junior, he won the national championship title, before Preidler began his professional career in 2010 at the Austrian Continental team . He rode for at the
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, finishing 87th overall.


Doping

In February 2019, Austrian newspaper '' Kronen Zeitung'' broke news that a number of professional cyclists had been implicated in the doping scandal uncovered at the
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. Preidler confessed to having his blood extracted for a possible transfusion. On 3 March, Preidler confessed to Austrian police, whilst also terminating his contract with via email. Preidler was due to race during the previous weekend, later admitting to having his blood drawn on two occasions late in 2018. The team then contacted the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the
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() and the Mouvement pour un cyclisme crédible (MPCC; en, Movement for Credible Cycling). Preidler was handed a four-year ban on 27 June 2019.


Major results

Source: ;2011 : 1st Overall Toscana-Terra di Ciclismo : 1st
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: 7th Overall Tour de l'Avenir ;2012 : 1st Mountains classification, Tour du Haut Var : 1st Mountains classification,
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: 3rd Grand Prix of Aargau Canton : 7th Les Boucles du Sud Ardèche : 8th Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria : 9th Flèche d'Emeraude ;2013 : 1st Mountains classification, Étoile de Bessèges : 3rd Rund um Köln ;2015 : 1st Time trial, National Road Championships ;2017 : 1st Time trial, National Road Championships : 1st Mountains classification, Vuelta a Andalucía ;2018 : National Road Championships ::1st Time trial ::3rd Road race : 6th Overall Tour de Pologne ::1st Stage 6 : 7th Raiffeisen Grand Prix : 10th Overall Route d'Occitanie


Grand Tour general classification results timeline


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