International Cycling Union wins large sentences Anti Doping

Of GENEYIS (AP) — Italian rider Franco Pellizotti was found guilty of doping and banned for two years Tuesday in a landmark victory for cycling blood profiling program. By Alessandro Trovati, AP

Italian Franco Pellizzotti finished third in the 2009 Giro d'Italia.

By Alessandro Trovati, AP

Italian Franco Pellizzotti finished third in the 2009 Giro d'Italia.

The Court of arbitration for sport ruled that evidence of blood doping was confirmed in the profile of Pellizotti biological passport. This was been stripped of all results of the race since May 2009. Pellizotti, whose ban runs through May 2, 2012, losing the third-place finish at the 2009 Giro d'Italia and the King of the mountains title in the 2009 Tour de France. He also must pay the International Cycling Union fines of $ 160,000, CAS said the governing body of Cycling. welcomed the Court's endorsement of the plan's flagship catching drug cheats. "We were always convinced about the quality of our programme of doping and the work of our people, "representative & UCI Enrico Carpani said in an interview with the buzz of the governing body of Cycling. appeal to CAS after an Italian court cleared of doping last October The UCI said Pietro Caucchioli CAS also rejected the appeal against his two-year suspension imposed by the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) on the basis of results of biological passport.Pellizotti and never tested positive for banned Caucchioli drugs, but showed jagged results on samples of blood taken for biological passport. our first verdicts are issued by CAS appeal panels that examined the scientific and legal validity of the biological passport. The program is designed so that scientists can prove evidence on the effect of doping rather than detecting and testing for banned substances in CAS Panel reviewed in detail the biological Passport program administered by the UCI and found that the strict implementation of this programme could be regarded as a reliable means of indirect methods of doping detection, "a statement said the project was started by. UCI and doping agency world in 2008."Two of these cases is important for cycling, for the biological passport and for sport, "said Carpani. "Thanks for the good cooperation of the AMA, we were sure we could go in front of CAS with a strong case."WADA Director General David Howman said the verdicts were an "important step" in efforts of doping. "Athlete biological Passport programme has shown that it can withstand legal and scientific challenges. Those decisions send a strong message to those athletes who take the risk of cheating that we will eventually catch them, "Howman said in a statement The case was heard Pellizotti. the Court is based in Lausanne last Wednesday as the fourth and highest profiletest of the biological passport. 33-Year-old rider was one of the Favorites for the 2010 Giro d'Italia. Days before the three-week race began in May last year, Pellizotti interrupted by his team Liquigas after UCI told blood profile results were suspicious case has been handled. by CONI, which recommended that the Court imposes a two-year doping ban. However, the Panel ruled last October that the evidence failed to prove the guilt of Pellizotti. Pellizotti, who has not raced each from CAS, also call for compensation for damage from the UCI.Caucchioli was the first group of five riders named in June 2009 for suspicious biological Passport violations. 35-Year-old rider, who won two stages in the Giro in 2001, was banned from CONI through June 2011. About 850 riders have their blood profile monitored by scientists at the laboratory in WADA annual cost $ 8.3 million of The UCI Lausanne. project financed partly by race organizers and groups. Riders also contribute a percentage of their prizes ... work UCI has been intended as a pilot that could be copied by other sports federations, including the International Association of athletics and football governing body FIFA.CAS is preparing two more sentences in cases of biological passport. UCI contested Slovenian officials refusing to suspend Tadej Valjavec during readings suspicious blood. Another Italian, Francesco De Bonis, appealed the ban to two years after CONI penalties using Passport last May.