Bergamasco sees ban extended after appeal *

Italy flanker Mauro Bergamasco has had his 13-week ban across all levels of rugby for eye-gouging lengthened to 17 weeks.

Bergamasco employed a team of lawyers to contest the punishment but the RBS 6 Nations' appeals' commission decided to extend the suspension after ruling on Friday that the 28-year-old "deliberately put a finger" in the eye of Wales' Lee Byrne during the Azzurri's defeat in Cardiff two months ago.