Juventus docs face 3 month ban for doping offenses
TURIN, Italy — The Italian Olympic Committee’s anti-doping commission has recommended that two doctors with soccer club Juventus be banned for three months for doping violations.
Bartolomeo Goitre and Luca Stefanini stand accused of breaking Italy’s anti-doping code, a note on CONI’s Web site said on Thursday.
In October the pair were held responsible for Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro failing a doping test. Cannavaro was given medicine containing cortisone after he was bitten by a mosquito, but failed to submit the required extenuating circumstances form.
Fabio Cannavaro was seen on video injecting injecting Creatine. PED's are used in every sport.
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Rob Hughes
International Herald Tribune
11-27-2004
The conviction Friday of the Juventus team physician accused of administering banned drugs to star players in the 1990s will send ripples of fear around the soccer world. A Turin judge found Dr. Riccardo Agricola guilty of ''sporting fraud'' of injecting players with substances including EPO, the synthetic hormone used to increase oxygen-carrying red blood cells. Agricola was fined 2,000, or $2,600, and sentenced to one year and 10 months' imprisonment. He will not go straight to jail. This is Italy, this is halftime in the legal process, and predictably the defense lawyers said immediately that the appeal starts now. ''He was …
Fabio cannavaro was also videotaped injecting Creatine into his Glutes, Juventus doctors were recommending blood doping decades ago