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Vladimir Nikolayevich Gusev (Russian: Владимир Николаевич Гусев, born 4 July 1982 in Veliky Novgorod) is a Russian professional road racing cyclist, who most recently

rode for UCI ProTeam Astana. Gusev has been a professional since 2004, spending two years each at

Team CSC and Discovery Channel before moving to Astana in 2008. On July 25, 2008 team Astana fired Gusev for

showing "abnormal" values during an internal doping check,[1] a decision the Court of Arbitration for Sport found to be

unjust in a ruling the following June.[2]At the 2006 Paris-Roubaix, Gusev finished fourth but was

later one of three riders disqualified by the race jury for illegally riding though a closed level-crossing.