CONI drops Riccò's second positives

Riccardo Riccò

Riccardo Riccò (Image credit: Sirotti)

The Anti-Doping Tribunal of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) dropped the case for the second batch of positive samples from Italian cyclist Riccardo Riccò from this year's Tour de France. The prosecutors cited the rules of the World Anti-doping Agency which state that in order for an anti-doping rule violation to be considered, the rider would have had to have been notified of his first offense before being caught for his second offense.