BMC Racing Team rider Alessandro Ballan of Italy celebrates winning the last stage of the Eneco Tour cycling race in Geraardsbergen August 12, 2012. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
PARIS (Reuters) - Former world road race champion Alessandro Ballan has been handed a two-year ban after he was implicated in a doping ring, the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) said on Friday.
The Italian BMC rider, who won the 2008 world title on home soil and the Tour of Flanders the previous year, is one of several former and current Lampre team riders and staff associated with a doping investigation in Mantova, Italy.
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