Rémy Di Gregorio (born 31 July 1985) is a French

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, who is currently suspended from the sport following a positive in-competition doping test for darbepoetin alfa, a re-engineered form of

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(EPO). He has previously competed for (2005–2010), (2011), (2012), and (2014–2018) in his professional career.

Career

He rode his first Tour de France in

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. He broke his elbow in a crash on the fourth stage. He finished the stage 7:58 behind the leader and left the race. He broke clear on the 10th stage of the 2008 Tour de France edition, on

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, and led until the final climb. Di Gregorio returned to the professional peloton in 2014, with .

Doping

On 10 July 2012, the first rest day of the

2012 Tour de France The 2012 Tour de France was the 99th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours. It started in the Belgian city of Liège on 30 June and finished on the Champs-Élysées stage in the Tour de France, Champs ...

, Remi di Gregorio was arrested by French police on suspicion of doping. In April 2013, it was revealed that Di Gregorio could resume his career, since the products found in his possession at the Tour turned out to be vitamins. Prosecutors said the case was not formally closed. Di Gregorio maintained he has never doped and successfully sued for unfair dismissal. In April 2018, news broke that Di Gregorio had failed an in-competition doping test for darbepoetin alfa, a re-engineered form of

(EPO), during that year's

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. He was suspended for 4 years, backdated from the adverse finding, following the confirmation that his B-sample also tested positive in May 2020.

Major results

;2003 : 1st Time trial, National Junior Road Championships ;2004 : 3rd Overall Ronde de l'Isard : 5th Paris–Mantes-en-Yvelines ;2005 : 5th Overall Tour de l'Ain ;2006 : 1st Stage 8 Tour de l'Avenir ;2007 : 1st Jersey red

Mountains classification Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré ;2008 : 10th Overall Tour Méditerranéen : Jersey red number

Combativity award Stage 10

Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage cycle sport, bicycle race held primarily in France. It is the oldest and most prestigious of the three Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours, which include the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a ...

;2009 : 5th Overall Route du Sud : 6th Overall Tour de l'Ain ;2010 : 5th

Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise Grand Prix Cycliste La Marseillaise, formerly known as the Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise, is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in February around the city of Marseille Marseille (; ; see #Name, below) is a city in south ...

: 10th Overall

Volta a Catalunya The Volta a Catalunya (; Tour of Catalonia, ) is a road bicycle race held annually in Catalonia, Spain. It is one of three World Tour stage races in Spain, together with the Vuelta a España and the Tour of the Basque Country. The race has had ...

;2011 : 1st Stage 7

;2012 : 3rd Overall Vuelta a Asturias ::1st Stage 3 : 3rd Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid ;2013 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Tour of Bulgaria ::1st Stage 2 ;2014 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Tour de Taiwan : 2nd

Boucles de l'Aulne Boucles de l'Aulne is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in May or June around Châteaulin, in the region of Brittany, France. Since 2006, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It was previously known as Grand ...

: 5th Overall Tour du Limousin : 5th Classic Sud-Ardèche : 5th

Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan Grand Prix du Morbihan is a single-day men's road bicycle race held annually in May around Plumelec, in the region of Brittany, France. Since 2020, the race is organised as a UCI race classifications, 1.Pro event on the UCI ProSeries, also being p ...

: 6th Overall Tour de l'Ain : 9th Overall Tour Alsace ::1st Jersey polkadot

Mountains classification : 9th Overall Tour d'Azerbaïdjan : 9th Overall Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon : 9th Tour du Jura ;2016 : 1st Jersey red

Mountains classification Tour La Provence : 1st Jersey polkadot

Mountains classification Critérium International ;2017 : 2nd Overall Tour of Almaty ;2018 : 1st Jersey blue

Mountains classification

Étoile de Bessèges The Étoile de Bessèges () is an early-season five-day road bicycle racing stage race held annually around Bessèges, in the Gard department of the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France. First organized in 1971 as a one-day race, it became a ...

: 1st Stage 2 Tour La Provence : 6th

References

External links

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Rémy Di Gregorio profile
at Astana {{DEFAULTSORT:Di Gregorio, Remy 1985 births Living people French male cyclists French sportspeople of Italian descent Cyclists from Marseille 21st-century French sportsmen