Dario Frigo... what happened to him?

[RHRH19861986]

As we know, Raimondas Rumsas stopped his professional career after his wife being caught with PEDs - this was in July 2002, Rumsas has been riding Gran Fondo amateur races since then, and still does.

Frigo was caught in 2005 for the second time, years after being caught with what was supposed to be HemAssist. Fassa Bortolo put an end to his contract in the summer of 2005, and I´ve never heard something about him since then - really nothing, despite him being maybe on world class level.

Does anyone know what he did from 2005 till today, what happened to him?

 

[Michele]

One little correction, Rumsas is supposed to do some sort of import/export of cars between Italy and Lithuania.
Riding Granfondo events is not his main job.

As for Frigo, he truly dissapeared and never heard on italian media what he is doing nowdays.

 

[Race Radio]

IIRC he is not living in Italy and someone saw him at a race recently as a spectator

 

[djerkson]

He still bothers me to this day. Aerts was second in a mountain stage after Frigo, the day before (or after, can't recall) he was second after Botero, and in the polka dots classification, he ended second after Jalabert. Nevertheless, those were other times.

 

[roundabout]

Aerts of the San Remo raid fame?

Easy to spot a Belgian whining how their "clean" heroes got cheated.

 

[djerkson]

Aerts of the San Remo raid fame?

Easy to spot a Belgian whining how their "clean" heroes got cheated.

Aerts was never in any doping case unlike Frigo, Jalabert & Botero. He went to the Telekomteam the year following that Tour. In his Telekomyear, he rode the Tour de France (place 89) and got almost no results, in the following year, he wasn't even allowed by the team. After that, he left the team and in some interviews after his Telekomperiod, Godefroot and Aerts both hinted he never wanted to take part in the systematical Telekom-dope system, hence his results. Yes, that Mario Aerts. Unless you have some hard evidence, you should not make any accusations.