Career
At 12 km to go, Rebellin made his move. Visconti, Bossoni, and Christian Murro (Tenax-Menikini) took the wheels of the Gerolsteiner"s rider. The four were able to keep the peloton away until the final meters.
"I"m over the moon," Visconti said, "I have thought about this race for a long time.
The teamwork was perfect, and Bettini helped me a lot to stay calm and concentrate for the final. lieutenant"s the best moment of my career.
He stood on the podium with Tejay van Garderen of Team HTC–Columbia and David Moncoutié of Cofidis. In April 2012, now riding for Movistar Team, Visconti took his first victory of the season at the Klasika Primavera by outsprinting his own teammate Alejandro Valverde and Euskaltel–Euskadi"s Igor Anton.
Four Movistar Team riders finished in the first five positions.
In May, Visconti had to withdraw from the Giro d"Italia during the fifteenth stage due to shortness of breath. He was told by his entourage that the event had all the symptoms of a panic attack. He came back to racing and signed a victory at the Circuito de Getxo, where his puncheur qualities served him well on the final climb, where he outsprinted Danilo di Luca.
He went to the Tour of Burgos and finished seventh overall thanks to consistent placings, especially in the queen stage to the Lagunas de Neila where he was eighth.
In December, it has been announced by the Italian National Olympic Committee that Visconti was suspended for 3 months and would have to pay a 10,000 Euros fine since he worked with doctor Michele Ferrari, who had been banned for life for doping athletes. Visconti has denied Ferrari had ever supplied him with doping products.
The suspension started retroactively on 10 October 2012. He qualified his conquest of the blue jersey as "a consolation" since he was going for stage wins that did not materialize during those attacks.
He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España.
