TOULOUSE, France (AP) â€" Italian cyclist Riccardo Ricco mislaid his bid on Tuesday to overturn a two-month dangling jail judgment and a excellent for doping during a 2008 Tour de France.
An appeals court in Toulouse inspected a outcome handed down by a justice in southwestern France in Jun 2010, when Ricco was found guilty of "using a unwholesome substance" during a race. He was fined $4,057.
Ricco tested certain for CERA, an modernized chronicle of a criminialized blood-booster EPO, after winning dual towering stages on a 2008 Tour and was criminialized from cycling for 20 months.
Ricco's profession attempted to get a charges forsaken given Ricco had already been charged by a justice in Italy in Feb 2010.
"We're not pleading in preference of doping, distant from it. Mr. Ricco done a mistake and certified it," Ricco's profession Annamaria Tripicchio-Rogier told The Associated Press during a court. "But given a fact he's already been cursed for a same thing by an Italian court, he can't be cursed again by another tribunal."
Tripicchio-Rogier combined that Ricco has 5 days to appeal, though did not contend either he would.
Ricco has not raced given he was rushed to a sanatorium after descending ill during his home nearby Modena in February. The alloy who treated him reportedly told military that Ricco certified transfusing his possess blood, that he allegedly kept in his home refrigerator.
The 28-year-old has had a sinister career. He was dismissed by Dutch group Vacansoleil-DCM after a occurrence in February, carrying formerly been dismissed by a Saunier-Duval group for his certain tests during a 2008 Tour.
Several other riders tested certain for CERA on a 2008 Tour, including towering dilettante Bernhard Kohl of Austria.
During a 2008 Tour, Ricco's widespread performances in a plateau lifted suspicions even before military arrived on a morning of a 12th theatre and systematic riders to step off a Saunier-Duval group bus.
Investigators found flasks and syringes in Ricco's bags, though no EPO was found among his possessions.
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