There's an interesting little story coming out from Italy tonight about one of cycling's most famous "doctors", Enrico Lazzaro, previously convicted for doping during the 2001 Giro. It seems that he has been given a "ordinanza di obbligo di dimora" which I read as an order not to leave his house (whoever knew that following cycling would give you such insight into the minutiae of the Italian legal system), and banned from returning to his surgery in Abano Terme.

This is the latest instalment in an Italian investigation entitled "via col doping", "on the road with doping" (which makes me think of Michael Holliday - or Bing Crosby for our American friends) which managed to install a series of bugs and hidden cameras in said surgery and captured, among other things, shots of a 15-year old girl swimmer having her blood "oxygenated" (video available here or, in a smaller version but with more details, here courtesy of Gazzetta). The investigation started with the stopping of Moletta's father in the 2008 Giro and apparently 30 people are to be charged, including seven cyclists and the parents of the swimmer. Others are yet to be identified (code names were provinces and "fantasia" - Tonight, Enrico, I'm going to be ... - or just initials) so more charges may follow.

Apparently Lazzaro was carrying out something called "ozonotherapy" which I've not seen clearly explained in the stories, but involves taking out blood, doing something magical to it then putting it back. Just like Johnny Holliday.