European Championships U18 Banska Bystrica 2024: racewalking timetable and streaming

17 July, 2024 by Redazione

The European Athletics Championships U18 2024 begin today, scheduled in Banska Bystrica (Slovakia) from Thursday 18th to Sunday 21st July. The italians in the race walk, over the distance of 5000m, will be the men's Alessio COPPOLA (Trieste Atletica) and Nicolò VIDAL (P.B.M. Bovisio Masciago), while the women's Serena DI FABIO (Polisportiva Tethys Chieti) and Beatrice PALMONARI (Atletica Lugo). The scheduled times for the walking events are as follows: Friday 19 July 7.10pm – 5000 meters women...

Schwazer returns after 8 years of mock the rules (unpunished)

7 July, 202410 July, 2024 by Redazione

Alex Schwazer's doping ban ends today, an event that has divided the world of athletics and racewalking fans. Beyond the clash of opinions of these 8 years, also enriched by sci-fi reconstructions and outright idiocies conveyed by the innocentist media (see support campaigns of the italian sports newspaper "Gazzetta dello sport" and the entertainment program "Le Iene") the sentence was served, even though "Alfred Rainer" (alse name used by Schwazer when he used the "services" of Doc. Michele Fer...

Schwazer: prosecutor dismisses investigation into alleged conspiracy. No evidence.

24 March, 202324 March, 2023 by Redazione

The Tageszeitung newspaper reported today the Bolzano prosecutor's request for dismissal regarding the investigation into the conspiracy theory against Alex Schwazer. After massive investigations also at an international level, with seizures of documentation, files, email communications and only one person under investigation, the prosecutor would have asked for it to be dismissed because the investigation would not have brought about any criminally demonstrable results. The investigations ag...

EMACNS 2022 in Grosseto. Registration also open to non-European athletes.

19 February, 202225 February, 2022 by Redazione

There are just over two months left and the Europe of Masters runners and walkers on road will meet in Grosseto (Italy) for the first continental outdoor event of 2022. From 12 to 15 May the main city of the "Maremma Toscana" will host these championships, symbol of the complete return to sport after the bad period that the whole world has gone through due to the pandemic. The news is that Master athletes (Over 35) from ALL NATIONALITIES can register to races, not just EMA member federations a...

Schwazer’s new appeal to suspend disqualification: contrary opinion by WADA, World Athletics, CAS and … Yohann Diniz

1 May, 20211 May, 2021 by Redazione

Last week the Swiss Federal Court had been questioned by Alex Schwazer with a new request to suspend his doping disqualification, by virtue of the controversial dismissal order in the criminal proceedings that had seen him investigated under Italian law. The first opinions of the sports institutions WADA, World Athletics and CAS arrived, which expressed themselves, as expected, against the request for an urgent suspension, while FIDAL would have provided a strange answer; on the decision of Pres...

WADA Statement on Alex Schwazer Case

22 April, 202123 April, 2021 by Redazione

With regard to the Schwazer case, WADA, with a long press release, has again rejected the accusations of italian judge Walter Pelino going into detail on some aspects of the criminal proceedings in which the athlete disqualified for doping was dismissed from criminal accuses. In essence, WADA highlights how the overwhelming evidence of Schwazer's guilt was totally ignored by the italian judge, who instead set his behavior as if the trial was against WADA, World Athletics and the Cologne laborat...

Grosseto to host European Masters Championships 2022. All details

19 April, 202122 April, 2021 by Redazione

Organized by italian walkers for over 35 runners and walkers from all over Europe. Grosseto is preparing to host next year the European Masters Athletics Championships Non Stadia (EMACNS), which is expected to take place in the Tuscan city by mid-May 2022. Great satisfaction for the LOC President (and president of italian athletics team ASD Track and field master Grosseto) Ernesto Croci, a walker of course. These are his words: “A 2-year job that led to the assignment of the event, thanks also ...

Free download the mini book “THE SCHWAZER CASE: Truth or fiction?”

1 April, 20212 April, 2021 by Redazione

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Olympic Gold medallist Jared Tallent Announces Retirement

26 March, 202126 March, 2021 by Redazione

By Sascha Ryner Read original article here >> Athletics Australia Review Tallent's victory in London 2012

President Seb Coe warns Italy over Alex Schwazer case

20 March, 202121 March, 2021 by Redazione

Italy must not be on the "wrong side of history" on the Alex Schwazer case. World Athletics President Sebastian Coe, on the press conference that followed the 224th World Athletics Council, warned Italy not to get on the wrong side of history. Alex Schwazer after the second doping disqualification of 2016 (testosterone) was affected by an Italian criminale judicial proceedings , but trial never started because his position was recently dismissed by the Bolzano judge Walter Pelino, who found that...