sentences:  In 2006, Scarponi was implicated in the Operación Puerto doping case.This had some consequence on Scarponi's results; his best result was a fifth-place stage finish on the thirteenth stage of the Giro d'Italia, a race he failed to finish for the first time; he failed to start the seventeenth stage the day after his team manager Manolo Saiz was arrested in relation to the Operación.The cycling team folded at the end of the season, but Scarponi was able to secure a contract with in February 2007.