Andrea Tafi is an Italian former road bicycle racer who retired from his professional career in 2005. Tafi's propensity to perform best in the harder races earned him the nickname Il Gladiatore. He specialized in the cobbled Spring Classics such as Paris?Roubaix which he won in 1999, and Tour of Flanders which he won in 2002. He won the Giro di Lombardia in 1996 and the Italian National Championship in 1998. He said that his dream was to emulate his cycling hero fellow Italian Francesco Moser, which is to win Paris?Roubaix wearing the Tricolore jersey as the Italian National Champion. He accomplished this in his win in 1999. His name was on the list of doping tests published by the French Senate in 24 July 2013 that were collected during the 1998 Tour de France and found positive for EPO when retested in 2004. 

May 7th, 1966 in Fucecchio (Age 57)