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BERLIN, March 29, 2013 (AFP) - German rider Stefan Schumacher, who has served a two-year doping ban, has admitted regularly knocking back a cocktail of performance-enhancing drugs, likening it to eating pasta after training. Schumacher was caught in October 2008 when a sample taken during that July's Tour de France was shown to have contained CERA, a variant of the banned … [Read more...]
PARIS, June 26, 2012 - Italian cyclist Riccardo Ricco is to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in a bid to have his 12-year doping ban overturned, the CAS announced on Tuesday. Having already served a 20-month ban for doping during the 2008 Tour de France, during which he was found to have taken the banned blood-booster CERA, Ricco almost died in February last year after … [Read more...]
ROME, June 10, 2011 (AFP) - Controversial Italian cyclist Riccardo Ricco was on Friday suspended by his country's national Olympic committee's (CONI) anti-doping body, a source said. The ban applies to events inside Italy as well as abroad. The 27-year-old Ricco had already been suspended on Wednesday by the Italian cycling federation on health grounds, four months after he went … [Read more...]
The movie script for the life of Riccardo Riccò just got that little bit more surreal on Sunday. It opens on a Tuscan hillside with a young prodigy winning every race he enters at junior level. Quickly noticed for the national Italian amateur squad, he then progresses to the pro ranks and is whispered to be the next big thing. Scene 3, Lots of landscapes and training montage: The movie would … [Read more...]
ROME, Feb 8, 2011 (AFP) - Italian cyclist Riccardo Ricco has been hospitalized after he was taken ill during training, Italian news agency ANSA reported late Monday. The Vacansoleil racer was first reported to be in a critical condition but later reports said he was making progress. ANSA said that "his state of health, critical to start off with - according to the Nuovo Ospedale … [Read more...]
ROME, Oct 15, 2010 (AFP) - Disgraced Italian Danilo Di Luca is set to return to competition in January 2011 after an anti-doping tribunal at the Italian Olympic Commitee (CONI) reduced a two-year doping ban to 15 months Friday. Di Luca, the 2007 Tour of Italy winner, was initially banned for two years after testing positive for the latest generation of the banned blood booster erythropoietin … [Read more...]
BERLIN - Germany's Stefan Schumacher will have to wait a bit longer for his return to professional cycling after serving a two-year ban for doping, he said on his website on Saturday. The 29-year-old was caught in October 2008 when a sample taken during that July's Tour de France was shown to have contained CERA, a variant of banned blood-booster EPO, which is a performance-enhancing … [Read more...]
THE HAGUE - Former drugs cheat Riccardo Ricco signed for Dutch cycling team Vacansoleil on Tuesday on a two year contract, his new outfit announced. The 26-year-old returned from a 20 month suspension in March after he was found to have taken CERA during the 2008 Tour de France. Ricco - nicknamed the 'Cobra' - rode for Ceramica Flaminia this season but wanted to move to a bigger team … [Read more...]
THE COURT OF ARBITRATION FOR SPORT (CAS) REJECTS THE APPEAL OF DAVIDE REBELLIN Lausanne, 30 July 2010 - The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed the appeal filed by the Italian cyclist Davide Rebellin against the decision of the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) of 17 November 2009 disqualifying the athlete from the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and … [Read more...]
Portuguese racer Nuno Ribeiro, winner of last year's Tour of Portugal, has been handed a two-year ban after testing positive for EPO-Cera during a race, his country's cycling federation said Saturday. Ribeiro, 33, had been suspended temporarily by the International Cycling Union from September of last year following the result of an August 3 test. Ribeiro is therefore stripped of his … [Read more...]