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Feb 20 2009, AP

The Italian Olympic Committee’s anti-doping prosecutor confronted Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde on Thursday with DNA evidence and documents that allegedly show he was in contact with a doctor at the center of the Operation Puerto blood doping case in

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