Giro d'Italia winner Danilo Di Luca has been cleared of doping because of insufficient evidence, an Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) commission said yesterday. The committee's anti-doping prosecutor had wanted Di Luca to be banned for two years for showing abnormal hormone levels in a dope test carried out after the 17th stage of last May's race.

A CONI spokesman said there was "not a sufficient degree of probability" to rule against the LPR rider.

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