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Valverde Two-Year Doping Suspension Upheld
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Tuesday announced that it has upheld a two-year suspension for doping against Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde.
The CAS “has dismissed the appeal filed by the Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde against the decision of the National Olympic Committee of Italy (CONI) suspending him for [...]
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- Operation Puerto Is Closed
December 12th, 2009Today, it was announced that Operación Puerto was over. The investigation to the Spanish doping ring based around the PED godfather Eufemiano Fuentes is closed. The retrospective look into the dark era
of cycling did undoubtedly prevent the sport moving forward. Bikepure and Bicycle.net are sad justice was not done.
The UCI, Spanish [...] - CAS Postpones Hearing In Valverde Doping Case
November 9th, 2009GENEVA, Nov 9, 2009 (AFP) – The Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS) said on Monday that it had postponed a hearing into Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde’s appeal against a doping ban that sidelined him from this year’s Tour de France.
The hearing into the two year suspension on Italian soil imposed by the Italian [...] - No Tour de France For Valverde
June 23rd, 2009PARIS, June 23, 2009 (AFP) – Controversial Spanish rider Alejandro Valverde will not take part in this year’s Tour de France, his Caisse d’Epargne team announced on Tuesday.
His absence removes a potentially embarrassing stand-off as the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) last month banned Valverde from racing in Italy for [...] - Valverde Appeals To CAS Over Doping Ban
June 19th, 2009GENEVA, June 19, 2009 (AFP) – Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde has appealed against a doping ban imposed by Italian authorities last month, world sport’s top court said on Friday.
The Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) last month banned Valverde from racing in Italy for two years due to his alleged involvement [...] - Cycling Chiefs To Name Latest Cheats, Threaten Sanctions
June 10th, 2009by Justin Davis
PARIS, June 10, 2009 (AFP) – The International Cycling Union (UCI) said several riders currently under suspicion of doping will be named publicly next week, and will subsequently face sanctions.
UCI chief Pat McQuaid, here Wednesday to announce plans for the fight against doping at [...] - Valverde Rails At ‘Injustice’ After Catalonia Win
May 24th, 2009MADRID, May 24, 2009 (AFP) – Spain’s Alejandro Valverde vowed to put his doping worries behind him after winning the 89th edition of the Tour of Catalonia on Sunday.
The 29-year-old Caisse d’Epargne rider was recently banned from competing in Italy for two years by the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) [...] - ‘Thanks, but no thanks’, Danes tell Valverde
May 14th, 2009COPENHAGEN, May 14, 2009 (AFP) – Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde, who has been banned from racing in Italy after being implicated in the Operation Puerto doping scandal, was on Thursday told that he was also not welcome in Denmark.
Valverde “will not be welcome on the Tour of Denmark if [...] - Valverde Banned From Racing In Italy For Two Years
May 11th, 2009ROME, May 11, 2009 (AFP) – T- The anti-doping tribunal of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) on Monday suspended Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde from competing on Italian soil for two years, the Ansa news agency announced.
Valverde, who was not present at the hearing, was punished for his role in [...] - Spanish Judge Blocks Release Of Valverde Samples From Doping Affair
April 18th, 2009MADRID, April 18, 2009 (AFP) – The Spanish Cycling Federation (RFEC) said Saturday a judge has again refused to hand over blood samples that could prove whether Spanish rider Alejandro Valverde is guilty of doping.
The federation said it was in “total and absolute disagreement” with the ruling by Judge [...] - Operation Puerto – Blood Sample Is Valverde’s, Say CONI
February 19th, 2009by Barnaby Chesterman
ROME, Feb 19, 2009 (AFP) – Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) anti-doping prosecutor Ettore Torri said on Thursday that a blood sample found in the laboratory central to the Operation Puerto scandal belongs to Alejandro Valverde.
Torri made his claim following a hearing attended by the Spanish Caisse d’Epargne [...] - Coni Describes Spanish Court’s Valverde Objections As “Groundless”
February 18th, 2009ROME, Feb 18, 2009 (AFP) – Spanish rider Alejandro Valverde’s appearance before the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) to face doping charges has been kept for Thursday after describing a Spanish court’s objections to the proceedings as “groundless.”
Valverde’s summons in Rome to question the rider has been kept for 1600GMT on Thursday, [...] - Spanish Court Fails To Block Valverde Doping Case
February 18th, 2009ROME, Feb 18, 2009 (AFP) – Spanish rider Alejandro Valverde’s appearance
before the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) to face doping charges has been
kept for Thursday after describing a Spanish court’s objections to the
proceedings as “groundless.”
Valverde’s summons in Rome to question the rider has been kept for 1600GMT
on Thursday, Coni said [...] - Pat McQuaid Welcomed Decision To Reopen Operation Puerto Inquiry
January 21st, 2009PARIS, Jan 21, 2009 (AFP) – Cycling chief Pat McQuaid on Wednesday welcomed a Spanish judge’s decision to reopen the Operation Puerto inquiry into blood doping.
Operation Puerto, Spain’s most far-reaching doping investigation, was put on ice last September but a Madrid court ordered it to be restarted this month.
[...] - Spain To Re-Open ‘Operation Puerto’ Investigation
January 19th, 2009MADRID, Jan 17, 2009 (AFP) – Spanish justice is to re-open the Operation
Puerto probe into blood doping in cycling, Spain’s biggest doping
investigation, which a judge had left on file last September, a judicial
source said Monday.
A provincial court in Madrid on January 12 revoked its September decision
to shelve the case because it [...] - Spain To Re-open Operation Puerto Doping Investigation
January 17th, 2009MADRID, Jan 17, 2009 (AFP) – Spanish justice is to re-open the Operation Puerto probe into blood doping in cycling which a judge had left on file last September, El Pais newspaper reported Saturday.
A provincial court in Madrid has ruled that there were indications of “an offense against public [...] - Basso Worth A Second Chance, Says Liquigas Chief
July 18th, 2008by Justin Davis
NARBONNE, France, July 18, 2008 (AFP) – Disgraced Italian cycling star Ivan
Basso deserves a second chance of resurrecting his career, the Italian’s
future manager at the Liquigas team said Friday.
Basso is nearing the end of a ban handed down after he admitted, without
having tested positive for banned substances, [...] - Operation Puerto affair reopened
February 14th, 2008MADRID, Feb 14, 2008 (AFP) – The Operation Puerto blood-doping affair
involving about 60 cyclists and which erupted in May 2006, has been reopened,
Madrid prosecutors’ said on Thursday.
A raid on the Madrid laboratory of Dr Eufemiano Fuentes uncovered doping products, bags of blood and codenames which appeared to link top athletes to a highly-organised system of [...]
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