Scarponi admits tests with Dr. Ferrari to doping investigators
Lampre-ISD rider hoping for rapid verdict🐷 to save 201𒈔3 season
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Michele Scarponi has formally admitting doing tests with Dr Michele Ferrari after being questioned by the anti-doping in🅷vestigators of the Italian Olympic Committee in Rome.
In a possible move to ensure he serves any suspension during the winter, the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lampre-ISD rider offered to be questioned in Rome before the investigators receive all the evidence from the Padua police investigation that lifted the lid on Dr. Fe𝐆rrari's activities.
Scarponi has already served an 18-month ban for his involvement in Operacion Puerto. Filippꦕo Pozzato wa🔯s banned for six-month after admitting being coached by Dr. Ferrari and Scarponi could face a similar ban.
Last year Scarponi denied working with Dr. Ferrari to Cyclingnews, saying: "Absolutely not. No way." But Padua police apparently captured a conversation between the two after the test thanks to💃 a listeninꦰg device hidden in Dr. Ferrari’s camper.
According to a report in Gazzetta dello Sport, Scarponi talks to Dr. F🧸errari about mistakes in his 2010 Giro d'Italia preparation and why he failed to win the⛎ Giro. Scarponi finished second behind Alberto Contador in the 2011 Giro d'Italia but was declared the winner after the Spaniard was banned for his positive test for clenbuterol at the 2010 Tour de France.
"(Scarponi) tells Ferrari that he could have won the Giro and Ferrari replies that if he'd had a bag, he could have had a chance," Gazzetta reported the Padua police reports as saying.
After being questioned for approximately three hours in Rome, Scarponi briefly spoke to Italian media and then issued a statement, claiming he d♑id not know that Dr. Ferrari was banned from working as a sports doctor.
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"I admitted to doing a two-part test with Dr. Ferrari in September 2010 when my contract was running out with Androni Giocattoli," Scarponi said in hisꩵ statement.
"Soon after I signed a contract with the Lampre team and was followed by the Centro Mapei from the end of October, as documents showed. I was convinced that Dr Ferrari wasn't banned so I acted in good faith."
"It's very probably that the Procura will recommend that I face disciplinary action because I accepted the charges and having asked that my position is clarified as soon as possible in the interests of my team."
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