Damiano Caruso
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1987 (36 years old)
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Ragusa, ItalyPosition
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1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
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68 kg (150 lb; 10 st 10 lb)
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Damiano Caruso (born 12 October 1987) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Bahrain Victorious. Caruso was also the 2008 under-23 Italian national champion for the road race.
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Born in Ragusa, Sicily, Caruso has competed as a professional since the second half of the 2009 season, competing for the LPR Brakes–Farnese Vini, and De Rosa–Stac Plastic teams, before joining Liquigas–Cannondale for the 2011 season. In October 2011, the Italian National Olympic Committee requested for Caruso to be suspended from competition for two years, although backdated from December 2010, in relation to a doping offence in 2007. He was given a backdated one-year ban in February 2012, allowing for him to return to competition without being banned, but all his 2011 results were voided. Caruso held the lead of the young rider classification at the 2012 Giro d'Italia, after Garmin–Barracuda's Peter Stetina lost time on the eighth stage.
In August 2014, Caruso signed a multi-year deal with the BMC Racing Team. At the end of 2014, Caruso scored a top-10 placing in the Vuelta a España, finishing ninth in the general classification. In 2015, Caruso finished eighth in the Giro d'Italia. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Tour de France, riding the race every year since.
In August 2018, Bahrain–Merida announced that Caruso would join them from 2019 on a two-year contract, with a continued focus on riding as a domestique in Grand Tours and to take opportunities as a team leader in some shorter stage races. During the 2019 Giro d'Italia both he and teammate Domenico Pozzovivo rode strongly placing near the top 20 en route to assisting GC favourite Vincenzo Nibali in finishing on the podium in 2nd. During the 2020 Tour de France he rode well with Mikel Landa, who finished in 4th place, as Caruso finished in the top 10 of the Tour for the first time in his career.
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