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GENEVA – European traveller dictator Pellizotti was found blameable of doping and illegal for digit eld Tuesday in a landmark conclusion for cycling's murder profiling program.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that grounds of murder doping was confirmed in Pellizotti's natural characteristic profile. He was empty of all his vie results since May 2009.

Pellizotti, whose forbiddance runs finished May 2, 2012, loses his third-place closing at the 2009 Giro d'Italia and his King of the Mountains denomination at the 2009 Tour de France. He also must clear the International Cycling Union a dustlike of $160,000, CAS said.

Cycling's governance embody welcomed the court's publicity of its flagship send to grownup verify cheats.

"We ever were certain of the calibre of our anti-doping information and the impact of our technological people," UCI spokesman Enrico Carpani said in a ring interview.

Cycling's governance embody appealed to CAS after he was cleared by an European anti-doping suite terminal October.

The UCI said CAS also rejected Pietro Caucchioli's attractiveness against his two-year support imposed by the European athletics Committee (CONI) on the foundation of natural characteristic results.

Pellizotti and Caucchioli never tested constructive for illegal drugs but showed irregular results in murder samples taken for their natural passport.

The verdicts are the prototypal issued by CAS attractiveness panels that hit examined the technological and jural validity of the natural passport. The information was designed so that scientists crapper prove grounds of the personalty of doping kinda than trace and effort for illegal substances.

The CAS commission "reviewed in discourse the natural characteristic information practical by the UCI and has found that the demanding covering of such information could be thoughtful as a sure effectuation of sleuthing indirect doping methods," it said in a statement.

The send was launched by the UCI and the World Anti-Doping Agency in 2008.

"Both of these cases are important for cycling, for the natural characteristic and for sport," Carpani said. "Thanks to the good cooperation of WADA, we were sure we could go in front of CAS with a strong case."

WADA director general king Howman said the verdicts were a "significant step" in anti-doping efforts.

"The athlete natural characteristic information has proven it crapper resist jural and technological challenges. These decisions send a strong message to those athletes who verify the risk to wander that we module finally grownup them," Howman said in a statement.

Pellizotti's housing was heard at the Lausanne-based suite terminal weekday as the fourth, and maximal profile, effort of the natural passport.

The 33-year-old traveller had been one of the favorites for the 2010 Giro d'Italia. Days before the three-week vie started terminal May, Pellizotti was suspended by his Liquigas aggroup after the UCI said his murder strikingness results were suspicious.

The housing was handled by CONI, which recommended that its anti-doping suite impose a two-year ban. However, the commission ruled terminal Oct that the grounds did not prove Pellizotti's guilt.

Pellizotti, who has not raced since, also appealed to CAS hunt damages from the UCI.

Caucchioli was among the prototypal group of fivesome riders titled in June 2009 for suspected natural characteristic violations. The 35-year-old rider, who won digit Giro stages in 2001, was illegal by CONI finished June 2011.

About 850 riders hit their murder profiles monitored by scientists at the WADA laboratory in Lausanne.

The UCI's annual $8.3 meg costs for the send are partly funded by vie organizers and teams. Riders also contribute a proportionality of their prize money.

The UCI's impact has been intended as a pilot that could be copied by another sports federations, including the International Association of Athletics Federations and soccer's governance embody FIFA.

CAS is preparing verdicts in digit more natural characteristic cases.

The UCI challenged Slovenian officials' refusal to alter Tadej Valjavec over his suspicious murder readings. Another Italian, Francesco De Bonis, appealed his two-year CONI forbiddance after existence authorised using characteristic grounds terminal May.

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