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Pole vaulter Gibilisco gets two-year doping ban

(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-07-19 13:49

ROME, July 18 - Former pole vault world champion Giuseppe Gibilisco was
handed a two-year doping ban by the Italian Athletics Federation (FIDAL)
on Wednesday.

In a statement on their website (www.fidal.it), FIDAL said the sentence
reflected "the request put forward by the Anti-Doping Prosecutor of the
Italian Olympic Committee (CONI)".

Last week Gibilisco appeared in front of CONI to explain how his name had
become involved in the "Oil for Drugs" investigation by Italian police
into doping in sport.

The probe, which began in 2004, has focused on the relationship between
sportsmen - including athletes and cyclists -- and doctor Carlo
Santuccione, who is alleged to have supplied them with banned substances.

Gibilisco, who won gold at the world championships in Paris in 2005 and
bronze at the Olympics in Athens, was accused by CONI of "the use or
attempted use of a banned substance or of a prohibited practice".

He has said he would retire from athletics if he received a ban.

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