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Reports in Gazzetta dello Sport cause Italian authorities to investigate former World champion.
The Anti-doping prosecutor of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) has announced that it has opened a file on former World champion Mario Cipollini. Reports in la Gazzetta dello Sport this weekend alleged that the charismatic "Super Mario" had been a client of controversial Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, and had been known by the codename “Maria” in the files that were seized from Fuentes’ office in the Operacion Puerto raids in 2006.
Further to its weekend stories, Gazzetta has alleged today that Cipollini was one of Fuentes' very first clients, and began working with him as early as 2001, and paid the doctor more than €130,000 over the next four years.