Italian anti-doping authorities (CONI) has planned a series of hearings next week. On Monday CONI will hear Italian sprinter Alessandro Petacchi about his overuse of Salbutamol and on Wednesday July 4 CONI will hear Eddy Mazzoleni and Ruggero Marzoli. Finally on Thursday July 5 the Italian anti-doping authorities will hear Danilo Di Luca and Domenico Quagliarello. The last 4 riders will be heard in the so called "Oil for drugs" case.

This years winner of the Giro d'Italia, Danilo Di Luca was already banned from the 2004 Tour de France because of his alleged involvement in the "oil for drugs" case. The police of Florence handed over a dossier of 572 pages to the state prosecuter of Rom,  Paolo Ferraro  about the case. The relation between Di Luca and Italian doctor Carlo Santuccione could bring the Italian rider into trouble. According to several media Santuccione is linked with Spanish doctor Fuentes. Florence police tapped phone calls and filmed Santuccione preparing a syringe with epo for Di Luca and another rider in the waiting room. It's not known where this information is coming from.

In another developement the UCI surpised CONI because the International Cycling Federation will not hand out information about the unnormal hormone measures of Danilo di Luca, Eddy Mazzoleni, Riccardo Riccò and Gilberto Simoni to CONI. The president of CONI, Gianni Petrucci demanded the information to speed up the investigation of the probes of the four riders which were taken after the Zoncolan stage at this years Giro d'Italia. The UCI said they can't hand over the information without the approval of the riders because of privacy reasons.  

According to Rai Sport Eddy Mazzoleni will not start at this years Tour de France. Earlier today CONI investigator Ettore Torri  anounced in Italian daily sports Gazzetta dello Sport that he would give Mazzoleni a provisional ban if the accusations against the number 3 of this years Giro d'Italia would not be resolved.