Professional cyclist fired for breaking contract through anti-doping statements
{{date|February 21, 2005}}
Professional cyclist Matt Decanio was fired in January from the Ofoto/Sierra Nevada cycling team for breaking what the team spokesman Josh Kadis called "ground rules" about what materials Decanio would be permitted to post on his anti-doping website, according to a report by VeloNews. The websites at issue are [http://www.stolenunderground.com Stolen Underground] and [http://www.mattdecanio.com Mattdecanio.com]. Decanio's anti-doping stance started with his [https://web.archive.org/web/20050411102742/http://www.racelistings.com/rzone/articles/article.asp?recid=329 admission] to the use of [[w:Erythropoietin|EPO]] in the summer of 2003 in preparation for the Housatonic Valley Classic in Connecticut, USA.

==Sources==
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|title=Ofoto fires DeCanio over web sites
|author=Neal Rogers
|pub=VeloNews
|date=January 24, 2005
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|url=http://bicycling.com/article/0,3253,s1-11161,00.html?category_id=441
|title=Down With the Ship
|author=Joe Lindsey
|pub=Bicycling.com
|date=February 3, 2005
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050214084017/http://www.bicycling.com/article/0,3253,s1-11161,00.html?category_id=441
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|title=History of doping on Sierra Nevada
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*{{source
|url=http://www.racelistings.com/rzone/articles/article.asp?recid=329
|title=How To Deal With The Problem of Doping
|author=Matt Decanio
|pub=Racelistings.com
|date=June 12, 2004
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050411102742/http://www.racelistings.com/rzone/articles/article.asp?recid=329
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Professional cyclist Matt Decanio was fired in January from the Ofoto/Sierra Nevada cycling team for breaking what the team spokesman Josh Kadis called "ground rules" about what materials Decanio would be permitted to post on his anti-doping website, according to a report by VeloNews. The websites at issue are  Stolen Underground and  Mattdecanio.com. Decanio's anti-doping stance started with his  admission to the use of EPO in the summer of 2003 in preparation for the Housatonic Valley Classic in Connecticut, USA.
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