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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\n\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ROME (AP) -- Former Giro d'Italia winner Michele Scarponi has been banned for three months by the Italian Olympic Committee for seeing banned physician Michele Ferrari.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   Scarponi admitted this year that he had two tests under Ferrari's supervision on the Monzuno climb near Bologna in September, 2010, but said he didn't know the doctor was banned.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   Ferrari was banned for life by the Italian Cycling Federation in 2002. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency also recently banned Ferrari for serving as a doping consultant on Lance Armstrong's winning teams.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   Scarponi won the 2011 Giro after Alberto Contador was stripped of the title for doping.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   Scarponi's ban began retroactively Oct. 1 and expires the end of this month. His lawyer, Alessandro Sivelli, argued that Ferrari's name does not appear on a banned list.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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