Lifetime ban for cheaters urged

International Riders Association president Gianni Bugno has called for lifetime bans for those caught with motorized bicycles.

Bugno, a two-time former world champion and double Giro d'Italia winner during his racing career, was speaking to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera a day after the newspaper and French TV program Stade 2 claimed to have detected possible cases of technological doping during the Strade Bianche and Coppi e Bartali races in March.

Bugno called on the International Cycling Union (UCI) to get tougher on cheats and do more to weed them out.