Bastianelli banned for one year after positive dope testItalian cyclist Marta Bastianelli Marta Bastianelli (born 30 April 1987[1]) is an Italian professional cyclist who lives in Lariano, Rome. Her most prolific win to date is taking gold at the women's road race during the UCI Road World Championships in the southern German city of Stuttgart in September , the 2007 women's road race world champion, has been handed a one-year ban by the anti-doping tribunal of the Italian Olympic Committee The Italian Olympic Committee (Italian: Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano, CONI) is the national Olympic committee in Italy for the Olympic Games movement. It is a non-profit organisation that selects teams, and raises funds to send Italian competitors to Olympic events for failing a drugs test. Bastianelli, 21, missed the Beijing Olympics after testing positive for flenfluramine, a stimulant, at the European under-23 championships in Verbania, northeast Italy Northeast Italy (Italian: Italia nord-orientale) is an informal cultural and geographic region of Italy and subregion of northern Italy. It is generally considered to be comprised of three Italian regions: Veneto, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, and Friuli-Venezia , in July. The year ban was backdated to August 7 and will run until August 6, 2009. Bastianelli's lawyer Giuseppe Napoleone said they would now appeal the case at the Lausanne-based Court of Arbitration for Sport The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS; Tribunal Arbitral du Sport or TAS in French) is an arbitration body set up to settle disputes related to sports. (CAS). The rider protested her innocence before the tribunal in August, saying that her local pharmacist had given her a dietary concoction of herbs that included the stimulant. 
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