Evans into ProTour lead after Di Luca gets dropped

October 19, 2007

Cadel Evans is now the leader of the ProTour after an announcement from the UCI early today. The UCI will remove Italian Danilo Di Luca from its ProTour standings, the organisation announced today. Di Luca has led the series since taking the overall classification of the Giro d’Italia, but his luck turned when he was first excluded from the World Championships and then sanctioned by the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI), who gave the 31 year-old a three month suspension which began on October 16 for his involvement in the “Oil for Drugs” scandal.

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