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The 39-year-old Katusha rider had been provisionally
suspended after failing a dope test for cocaine on the Tour de
France last year.
The UCI's anti-doping tribunal found the rider guilty of
unintentional consumption of benzoylecgonine, a cocaine
metabolite, which prompted the sanction.
Cocaine is a stimulant that is banned in competition.
Paolini won one stage on the Giro d'Italia in 2013 and another
one on the Vuelta in 2006 and was one of the lieutenants of top
sprinter Alexander Kristoff of Norway on the Tour de France last
year.
(Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in New Delhi; editing by Clare
Fallon)
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