Italian cycling Federation calls for four-year bans

MILAN (AP) — the Italian cycling Federation calls for doping bans should be extended from two to four years and wants the team directors and other squad members for first offences prohibited indefinitely. the Federation also wants lifetime bans for second offences bikers. proposals were unveiled an emergency session Thursday. They may be adopted in the Council of the Federation's meeting may 4, three days before the start of the Giro d'Italia. announcements come two days after the Italian Olympic Committee President Giovanni Petrucci said doping has become so rampant that the Federation needed to say teams and riders "to stop because nobody believes you anymore.