[4] Ulissi is a versatile, all-round cyclist who often wins stages and one-day races from breakaways and over hilly terrain.

He is the second cyclist ever – after Giuseppe Palumbo – to achieve two consecutive World Junior Road titles.

[10] Ulissi took his second World Tour-level win during the first stage of the 2013 Tour de Pologne, out-sprinting Darwin Atapuma and Rafał Majka from a breakaway group of 15 riders.

In Milano–Torino, Ulissi attacked away from a small group of favourites, including defending champion Alberto Contador, on the final climb to take victory.

[13] Finally, days after, Ulissi again jumped away from the leading group in the closing metres of the Giro dell'Emilia to take victory.

[16] After serving a doping-related suspension that ended in March 2015, Ulissi came back to win Stage 7 of the Giro d'Italia in Fiuggi.

[19] Ulissi won the first individual time trial of his professional career on Stage 2 of the Tour of Slovenia, beating eventual general classification winner Rein Taaramäe over a short and hilly parcours.

[25] Ulissi won Stage 5 of the 2018 Tour de Suisse, overpowering Enric Mas in a sprint to the line.

He also won Stage 3 and the general classification in the Tour of Slovenia and the test event for the road race at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

[29] Lampre–Merida and the head coach of Italy's national team, Davide Cassani, expressed support for Ulissi.

Nevertheless, he was provisionally suspended from Lampre–Merida and did not attend the Italian national team's training camp after the positive test was announced.

[30] Ulissi appealed to the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) for a controlled excretion study, as he could face a two-year suspension from racing.