FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro says he did nothing wrong and was bothered by the outrage before he was cleared of doping last week.
Cannavaro tested positive in August after using cortisone to treat a bee sting. The Italian Olympic Committee's anti-doping prosecutor questioned the defender on Thursday then recommended dropping the case two days later.
"My conscious is clean," Cannavaro said Monday after joining Italy's team to prepare for a World Cup qualifier against Cyprus.
"You get stung by a bee and you end up seeing yourself in the paper treated like a doper," Cannavaro said, according to ANSA news agency, "I thought I was dreaming. Some papers and TV stations took it too far."
Cortisone can be administered if authorization for therapeutic needs is granted beforehand, and it was unclear if Juventus received CONI's permission.
Juventus and club physician Bartolomeo Goitre could still be sanctioned by CONI.
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