Rodolfo Massi

Rodolfo Massi is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist, born on 17 September 1965. He turned professional in 1987 but broke a leg in 1988, and after the operation one leg was a few centimetres shorter than the other, so he often rode as a domestique for many different teams. He won a stage of the 1996 Giro d'Italia and a mountain stage of the 1998 Tour de France, and in 1998 also won the Tour Mediterraneen and the Giro di Calabria. Later in that Tour de France, corticoids were found in his hotel room and he was expelled from the race. He was the first rider in history to be arrested for breaking doping laws, although the charges were later dropped, and the Italian Olympic Committee banned him for six months. In the 1990 Tour he finished last, the lanterne rouge.