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Gibilisco wins drugs ban appeal

Gibilisco fell foul of CONI's tough anti-drugs stance
Italy's 2003 pole vault world champion Giuseppe Gibilisco has won his appeal against a two-year doping ban.
The suspension was imposed in July for "the use or attempted use of a banned substance or of a prohibited practice".

It was imposed the Italian Athletics Federation (FIDAL) at the request of the country's Olympic Committee (CONI).

Gibilisco, 28, had threatened to retire if he did not clear his name. CONI has said it will appeal against the decision to clear his name.

A spokesman for FIDAL said its appeal commission had lifted the ban because Gibilisco, who won bronze at the 2004 Olympics, had never failed a doping test.

CONI is already waiting for the Court of Arbitration for Sport to rule on the case of cyclist Alessandro Petacchi.

He was cleared of a doping offence by the Italian Cycling Federation despite a CONI request for a one-year ban.

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Pole vaulter Giuseppe Gibilisco wins appeal to overturn doping suspension
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Gibilisco's doping ban lifted on appeal
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ROME, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Former pole vault world champion Giuseppe Gibilisco won his appeal on Wednesday against a two-year doping ban imposed by the Italian Athletics Federation (FIDAL).
"The CAF (Federal Appeal Commission)... has upheld the appeal presented by the athlete Giuseppe Gibilisco against the two year ban," a statement said on FIDAL's Web site (www.fidal.it).
Gibilisco, who won gold at the 2003 world championships in Paris and bronze at the Athens Olympics a year later, had threatened to retire if he could not clear his name.
FIDAL banned the 28-year-old in July after the Italian Olympic Committee's (CONI) anti-doping prosecutor Ettore Torri requested the sanction.
However, a spokesman for FIDAL said the appeal commission had lifted the ban because Gibilisco had never failed a doping test.
CONI, which acts as Italy's anti-doping body, accused Gibilisco of "the use or attempted use of a banned substance or of a prohibited practice" and said he was implicated in an Italian police investigation into doping in sport.
The probe, which began in 2004, has focused on the relationship between sportsmen and doctor Carlo Santuccione, who is alleged to have supplied them with banned substances.
CONI's Torri, who has been relentless in his bid to clean up Italian sport, told Italy's ANSA news service he would appeal the decision to absolve the pole vaulter and may even go to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
Torri is already waiting for CAS to rule on the case of cyclist Alessandro Petacchi, who was cleared of a doping offence by the Italian Cycling Federation despite a request for a one-year ban.
Cyclist Danilo Di Luca, the winner of this year's Giro d'Italia, has yet to hear from Torri if he faces disciplinary action for links to Santuccione. He denies wrongdoing.
(Writing by Mark Meadows in Milan)

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Gibilisco must serve ban
Eurosport - Fri, 26 Oct 14:20:00 2007
A sporting judge has ruled that former pole vault world champion Giuseppe Gibilisco must serve a two-year doping ban despite winning an earlier appeal.

Gibilisco, who won gold at the 2003 worlds in Paris and bronze at the Athens Olympics a year later, was initially banned in July by the Italian Athletics Federation (FIDAL) after a request from the country's anti-doping prosecutor.
However, the 28-year-old won an appeal in September with a FIDAL spokesman saying the ban had been lifted because Gibilisco had never failed a doping test.
Now the ban has been reinstated by a sporting judge, although Gibilisco said he would go to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to prolong the saga, one of several recent long-running and complicated doping cases in Italy.
"I am taking this sentence with a smile like the other times," Gibilisco said. "It isn't finished here. I will appeal to CAS."
Gibilisco is accused of being implicated in an Italian police investigation into doping in sport which began in 2004.
The probe has focused on the relationship between sportsmen and doctor Carlo Santuccione, who is alleged to have supplied them with banned substances.