Italian cycling chief seeks end of disgraced doctor's influence on riders
Code's Italian chief says disgraced doctor, who at one stage was Lance Armstrong's trainer, is still seeing competitors and action is needed
Law enforcement authorities need to prevent banned doctor Michele Ferrari from seeing riders and conclude his long-running stain on the sport, according to the president of the Italian Cycling Federation.
"It needs to be law enforcement and judicial officials that put an end to it," Renato Di Rocco said. "Unfortunately, teams don't have these means."
It needs to be law enforcement and judicial officials that put an end to it
Earlier this month, investigators led by Padua prosecutor Benedetto Roberti sent a 550-page file detailing allegations of Ferrari's continued influence on cyclists to the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni).
Of the more than 35 pro cyclists involved in the inquiry, "most of them" are still competing, police said.
Coni's anti-doping prosecutor is currently going through the dossier and will likely start calling in athletes to answer for the case starting next month, the committee said.
The same four-year-old investigation played a role in the massive 2012 report by the US Anti-Doping Agency that detailed doping by Lance Armstrong and led to him being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles.