Cycling: Ballan suspended by BMC (sport - brief)

MILAN: Italy’s former world champion Alessandro Ballan has been suspended by his BMC team and will miss this month’s Giro d’Italia because of his continued involvement in a long-running doping probe. The 2008 world champion, who has also been suspended by BMC, have been under investigation for months. Both Lampre and the riders deny any wrongdoing. Ballan was previously suspended by BMC last year only to be cleared later.



Published in The Express Tribune, May 4^th, 2011.