Danilo Di Luca to appeal his three-month suspension
The 2007Giro d’Italia winner, Danilo Di Luca has appealed his three-month suspension in the Oil for Drugs investigation. The 31 year old Italian from Abruzzo, is accused of using the services of Doctor Carlo Santuccione, has appealed the Italian Cycling Federation (FCI) Disciplinary Commission’s decision last October to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The CAS verdict may arrive as soon as April – after the suspension of Di Luca finishes (January 16), but Di Luca wants to fight what he believes was a unfair verdict. “It is a question of principle,” he said to La Gazzetta dello Sport. “I have said from the start that the sentence did not seem justifiable, and I want to demonstrate my innocence.”
Santuccione was disqualified as a Italian sports medicine doctor for five years in 1995 after being found to have provided doping substances to athletes.
After closing out a three-year contract with Liquigas at the end of this month, Di Luca will ride with Team LPR in 2008. He signed with the Italian Professional Continental team last month.
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