{"id":7011,"date":"2009-04-01T09:11:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T16:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7011"},"modified":"2009-04-01T09:23:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T16:23:19","slug":"cycling-road-valverde-charged-by-italians-over-puerto-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7011","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Valverde charged by Italians over Puerto affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Spanish rider Alejandro Valverde has been charged with being involved in Spain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Operacion Puerto doping scandal, the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">CONI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s anti-doping prosecutor has called for a two-year ban but any suspension agreed by an Italian anti-doping tribunal is likely to only take effect inside Italy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Spanish cycling federation or the International Cycling Union (UCI), the world governing body, would have to bring their own charges for a ban to be worldwide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But UCI president Pat McQuaid told Reuters: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is for the moment an Italian affair under Italian law\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 UCI will have to wait until the process finishes to see how we can proceed.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The CONI statement read: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The CONI prosecutor has charged the Spanish cyclist Valverde. A two-year ban is requested\u00e2\u20ac\u009d&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=reu-dopingvalverde&amp;prov=reuters&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/link.php?ml=1129&amp;p=12689&amp;pw=15937\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish rider Alejandro Valverde has been charged with being involved in Spain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Operacion Puerto doping scandal, the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) said on Wednesday. CONI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s anti-doping prosecutor has called for a two-year ban but any suspension agreed by an Italian anti-doping tribunal is likely to only take effect inside Italy. The Spanish cycling federation or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7026,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011\/revisions\/7026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}