Cannavaro doping doctors in courtTwo Juventus club doctors who gave a banned drug to Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro after he was stung by a wasp are facing a three-month suspension from football. That is the recommendation put forward by Italian Olympic Committee The Italian Olympic Committee (Italian: Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano, CONI) is the national Olympic committee in Italy for the Olympic Games movement. It is a non-profit organisation that selects teams, and raises funds to send Italian competitors to Olympic events (Coni) prosecutors on Thursday for Bartolomeo Goitre goitre Enlargement of the thyroid gland, causing a prominent swelling in the front of the neck. The thyroid normally weighs 0.5 to 0.9 oz (15 to 25 g); however, goitrous thyroid glands can grow to more than 2 lbs (1,000 g). and Luca Stefanini. Cannavaro failed a dope test in late August after taking a medicine that contained the banned substance cortisone cortisone (kôr`tĭsōn'), steroid hormone whose main physiological effect is on carbohydrate metabolism. It is synthesized from cholesterol in the outer layer, or cortex, of the adrenal gland under the stimulation of adrenocorticotropic , given to him by his club's doctors, after he was stung by a wasp. The former World Player of the Year then requested a doping exemption on the grounds that it was emergency medication but his request was missing a document and while awaiting a decision he was subjected to an anti-doping test, which returned a positive result. Coni then announced in mid-October that it was dismissing the case against him, after which Cannavaro launched a furious tirade at the press for their coverage of the incident. "I have a clean conscience. Someone gets stung by a bee and then he finds themselves in the newspapers as if he had doped," he said at the time. "When that happened I thought I was dreaming. Some newspapers and television stations went too far." 
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