Riccardo Riccò: Two Year Ban
by Jen See on Oct 2, 2008 11:36 AM EDT
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Riccardo Riccò has today received a 2 year ban from the Italian Tribunale Nazionale for antidoping. The Tribunale rejected the recommendation of CONI, which called for a reduction of Riccò's sanction to 20 months. The procura of CONI argued that Riccò had provided sufficient information about his suppliers and Dr. Santuccione to warrant a shortened sanction. The Tribunale disagreed. The sanction resulted from two violations: use of a banned substance (18 months) and consulting the banned Doctor Santuccione (6 months). Though the Tribunale handed down a harsher sanction than CONI had requested, it did grant Riccò a reduced sanction. The full penalty for both offenses would normally number 30 months: 24 months for the positive test, 6 for consulting Santuccione.
Riccò will miss the next two editions of both the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France, and is eligible to ride on 31 July 2010. In a brief comment to the press, Riccò said he was "very disappointed" with the Tribunale's decision, as he had expected a reduced sanction. "But I was wrong, and it is just that I pay," he said.
Source: tuttobiciweb.it.
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At least he's not saying it's the gravest injustice known to man
I’ll give him a bit of credit for taking his medicine and not bitching too much.
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
Taking his medicine?
Wasn’t that how he got in trouble the first time?
Carlos Sastre - Tour de France winner - Born From Jets
Hey. I drink cough medicine all the time
Nothing wrong with that.
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
When the cough is caused by ingesting large quantities of mud
no coughmedicine in the world can help you.
Carlos Sastre - Tour de France winner - Born From Jets
Pictures pending...........
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
Hey. I drink cough medicine all the time
Drew is Lester Bangs and I claim my €5.
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
by fmk on Oct 2, 2008 1:34 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh, it's not the speed really so much,...
I just wish I hadn’t drunk all that cough syrup this morning.
Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc.
Oh, I bet I've been lots of ways that you haven't ma'am
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
Somebody kicked my dog Mavis
and I’m gonna find out just who the hell it was
but I’m all messed up on cough syrup right now
so just
like
nevermind
yep
Although, they did lop off six months from the banned substances sanction – that would normally be two years. The total would have been 30 months if he’d received the full sanction for both offenses. They just didn’t cut as much as he’d hoped.
And what beans did he spill?
We haven’t seen any action from CONI based on those beans have we?
Carlos Sastre - Tour de France winner - Born From Jets
Peipoli
They are reportedly preparing a case against Piepoli based upon the Riccò testimony – according to Capodacqua, R named P. I’m guessing they await the remaining CERA tests from France for that, though.
CONI can’t really act against Santuccione – he’s already banned for life from working with cyclists. No doubt they’ve passed in the info over to NAS, though. Last time Capo asked, NAS refused to confirm or deny an investigation into S’s activities. We’ll see on that.
I believe he received
an extra 6 months for wearing a fugly jacket to CONI’s offices
He’s lucky he wasn’t banned for life for the logo turtleneck
Man if that's fashion...
… I’ll stick to wearing jeans and soccer jerseys.
Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc.
CONI gave him a lifetime ban from practising sports medicine, but I think he still has his ordinary medical licence.
Whatever happened to his son, Davide?
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
by fmk on Oct 2, 2008 7:24 PM EDT up reply actions
2 years or possibly more?
Good luck to the manufacturers of the gear he ends up riding on in 2 years… toxic stew
"Race radios in Cat 4?"
I agree with Drew, good thing he didn't bitch...
When you dig your own ditch, you’re not allowed to complain when the Dept. of Transportation tosses your shit back in over you.
On July 31, 2010, can we please not ever have to call him Il Cobra?
Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc.
Didn’t St David bitch a bit over the length of his ban? He’d hoped that by offering to tell British Cycling’s talent pool how easily he’d evaded the doping controls that the BCF would let him off with an 18 month slap on the wrist. But when they gave him the full two years he moaned at the severity of it.
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
by fmk on Oct 2, 2008 3:11 PM EDT up reply actions
millar is awful in his own way
when he starts complaining and lecturing about doping – and acting like some sort of poster boy for non-dopers.
a hypocrite that just happened to get caught red-handed
I prefer Millar when his mouth is closed.
by cyclingchallenge on Oct 5, 2008 6:03 PM EDT up reply actions
According to Eurosport,
he did say he did wrong and it’s right that he should pay, but he also said that he’s “very disappointed and bitter, " and "expected more understanding,”
Would you perhaps
give Ricco a water bottle of that? Classic.
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
My mom once made a Shrimp Bisque...
… with a recipe that called for 1/3 of a tablespoon of aromatic bitters… it was mixed in with the rest of the recipe and she read it wrongs as 1/3 of a CUP…
Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc.
We tried... gamely...
… but it was the only time my mom grabbed a full tourine of food from the table and poured it down the Dis-pos-all.
Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc.
My mom once made a Shrimp Bisque...
Must remember to caffeine up before reading this site. Somehow I read that as your mother once made a shrimp basque.
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
by fmk on Oct 4, 2008 4:22 AM EDT up reply actions
Uuuummm…try the other basque. With all the Furry talk round here recently my mind has clearly been warped.
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
Cunego
Quotey from Gazzetta: “There is not a big difference between 20 months and 2 years. Ricco can not but accept the verdict of an authority so important… Cycling is in a state of change, this is only one of the signs.”
A Giro and a Tour de France. Big difference.
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
by fmk on Oct 4, 2008 4:23 AM EDT up reply actions
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