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Giuseppe Gibilisco of Italy celebrates after competing in the pole vault final at the Olympic Stadium during the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Friday Aug. 27, 2004. Former pole vault world champion Giuseppe Gibilisco's two-year doping ban was lifted Wednesday by the Italian athletics federation. Gibilisco had asked for the ban to be overturned and the federation's appeals commission ruled in his favor, FIDAL said on its Web site. It gave no reasons for the decision, saying it would do so next week (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)