Juve boss cleared, doctor jailed

JUVENTUS managing director Antonio Giraudo has been acquitted of doping-related charges, but club doctor Riccardo Agricola has been found guilty and sentenced to one year and 10 months in prison.

The verdicts, handed down by judge Giuseppe Casalbore yesterday, bring to an end a Turin trial into alleged widespread doping at Juve between 1994 and 1998 a hugely successful spell for the club known in Italy as "La Vecchia Signora" (old lady). Both men were tried under Italy's "sporting fraud" laws which were introduced to criminalise drugs cheats. Prosecutors had asked for a prison term of three years and two months for Agricola and two years and one month for Giraudo.