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GENEVA – European cyclist Tadej Valjavec was presented a two-year forbiddance for doping on Friday, in added jural conclusion for cycling's natural characteristic project.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld an attractiveness by the International Cycling Union, which desired Valjavec sanctioned modify though he never proven positive for a illegal drug.

CAS said its panel found that Valjavec's "anti-doping tests performed in Apr and August 2009 revealed abnormalities in the context of the athlete's natural characteristic to a honor which was all conformable with murder manipulation."

The 34-year-old traveller was suspended finished Jan. 19, 2013, punished $76,000 and empty of all results and prizes from Apr 19-Sept. 30, 2009, the suite said.

It was a third straightforward conclusion for the UCI at sport's highest suite in cases involving its flagship anti-doping program.

"We are extremely mitigated because this CAS finding has erst again presented hold to the reliability of the natural passport," UCI spokesman Enrico Carpani told The Associated Press by telephone. "However, you are never bright with a housing of doping because it is ever digit likewise many."

The governing body challenged the European cycling federation's selection terminal July to country its grapheme rider, who settled 10th in the 2008 Tour de France.

Valjavec had denied doping and blamed an unspecified sickness for the irregularities in his murder samples.

However, CAS "confirmed the reliability of the backhanded method of spotting based on the murder strikingness of athletes and already established in previous CAS decisions concerning the European cyclists Pietro Caucchioli and Franco Pellizotti."

The UCI asked European officials to investigate Valjavec terminal May, days before the 2010 Giro d'Italia started. Valjavec was pulled from the vie and suspended by his Ag2r-La Mondiale team.

He has raced this flavour for the third-tier Turkic aggroup Manisaspor and had fashioned to start the weeklong Tour of Turkey on Sunday.

The UCI and World Anti-Doping Agency launched the natural characteristic in 2008 in an try to fight doping.

About 850 riders hit their lawful murder samples monitored at the WADA work in Lausanne. The program is fashioned to support reveal the effects of doping, and illegal methods such as murder transfusions, rather than drawing and testing for illegal substances.

Valjavec was titled along with Pellizotti in a ordinal round of riders settled low distrustfulness by the UCI.

In a occasion CAS finding terminal month, Pellizotti was illegal for digit eld and empty of his third-place closing at the 2009 Giro and his King of the Mountains title at the 2009 Tour.

It was the prototypal judgement from a CAS panel of three lawyers, which examined the technological and jural rigour of the natural passport.

After the Pellizotti ruling, WADA administrator generalized king Howman described it as a "significant step" in anti-doping efforts.

Pellizotti was unwooded by an European assembly that had been advised to bill a two-year forbiddance terminal October, prompting the UCI's flourishing challenge.

CAS also dismissed Caucchioli's attractiveness against his two-year support imposed by the European athletics Committee (CONI) on the basis of irregular murder readings.

The suite is preparing its finding in a ordinal natural characteristic housing after added Italian, Francesco De Bonis, appealed his two-year forbiddance imposed by CONI terminal May.

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