YellowFluo-Neri Sottoli manager Luca Scinto has spoken out against criticism of RCS for controversially awarding a Giro d’Italia wild card spot to his team. The previous Vini Fantini-Selle Italia squad had 2 positive drug tests at last years event: Mauro Santambrogio and Danilo Di Luca.

“I’m very happy, I’m just very, very happy,” Scinto told Cyclingnews.

When asked if the decision came as a shock to him considering the events of last year, he said:

“I don’t want to talk about last year, where 40 people risked losing their jobs. This year is different. Fantini has started its own team and we are YellowFluo, an all-Italian team, one that pays all of its taxes in Italy. We’re a new team, we’re starting again from scratch.”

In order to prove they are clean, Scinto has said:

“We’re going to publish all of our riders’ biological passport data on our team’s website. It’s something we’ve looked at to show that we don’t have anything to hide,” said Scinto. “I’m happy because we wanted to rebuild. This is a new team and we want to find important sponsors to grow the team.”

As for the event, Scinto is confident the team can prove they deserved an entry.

“[Andrea] Dal Col is a good rider, a kind of Italian Greipel, and there’s [Francesco] Chicchi for the sprints too. We’ve got [Matteo] Rabottini, who had physical problems last year and wasn’t at his best for the Giro, and [Simone] Ponzi is a rider who we can bring back to a high level like Visconti (now at Movistar-Ed.).”