ITALY: CYCLE RACING - Italian cyclist Alessandro Petacchi leaves doping hearing to await verdict
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ITALY: CYCLE RACING - Italian cyclist Alessandro Petacchi leaves doping hearing to await verdict
- Title: ITALY: CYCLE RACING - Italian cyclist Alessandro Petacchi leaves doping hearing to await verdict
- Date: 3rd July 2007
- Summary: ROME, ITALY (JULY 2, 2007) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF OLYMPIC STADIUM WHERE MEETING TOOK PLACE JOURNALISTS WAITING OUTSIDE
- Embargoed: 22nd July 2007 18:01
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- Location: Italy
- Country: Italy
- Topics: Sport
- Reuters ID: LVA8757DQ8UR1UEF7YCI6AT4H0MA
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- Story Text: Italian cyclist Alessandro Petacchi spends over two hours with Italian anti-doping officials and now awaits verdict.
Cyclist Alessandro Petacchi spent two hours with Italian anti-doping officials on Monday (July 2) in a bid to explain why he tested for excessive levels of salbutamol during the Giro d'Italia in May.
Petacchi, desperate to take part in the Tour de France starting on Saturday (July 7), has a medical certificate to use a set amount of salbutamol in his asthma inhaler and was heard by Ettore Torri, the Italian Olympic Committee's doping prosecutor.
"I tried to explain my case scientifically and the good faith in which it happened," the sprinter told reporters as he left the hearing.
"Now it is all in the hands of the prosecutor. The Tour? It depends on the prosecutor."
A verdict is expected later on Monday. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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