Juve Fact of this week:
Juve doctor wins appeal against doping verdict
ROME, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Juventus team doctor Riccardo Agricola was cleared of sporting fraud by Turin's court of appeal on Wednesday.
The decision overturned the guilty verdict handed down by another Turin court last November when Agricola was given a 22-month suspended prison sentence for administering the banned blood-booster EPO to the club's players between 1994 and 1998.
Juventus's managing director Antonio Giraudo was also cleared of sporting fraud on Wednesday.
Giraudo was cleared at the original trial. But Turin public prosecutor Raffaele Guarinello, who conducted a four-year investigation into medical practices at the 28-times Italian champions, had asked for his evidence to be reconsidered by the court of appeal.
I guess the Appeals Court demands real, competent evidence and not the old rumour and inuendo that the Trial Court was content with. "But I swear, your Honor, that Del Piero is bigger now than when he was 16."
Juve doctor wins appeal against doping verdict
ROME, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Juventus team doctor Riccardo Agricola was cleared of sporting fraud by Turin's court of appeal on Wednesday.
The decision overturned the guilty verdict handed down by another Turin court last November when Agricola was given a 22-month suspended prison sentence for administering the banned blood-booster EPO to the club's players between 1994 and 1998.
Juventus's managing director Antonio Giraudo was also cleared of sporting fraud on Wednesday.
Giraudo was cleared at the original trial. But Turin public prosecutor Raffaele Guarinello, who conducted a four-year investigation into medical practices at the 28-times Italian champions, had asked for his evidence to be reconsidered by the court of appeal.
I guess the Appeals Court demands real, competent evidence and not the old rumour and inuendo that the Trial Court was content with. "But I swear, your Honor, that Del Piero is bigger now than when he was 16."
