Author: Stefano La Sorda
Stefano La Sorda
Stefano La Sorda is the creator of this website and writes about racewalking since 2000. He is FIDAL “Instructor” since 1997 and national judge for the Swiss Walking Federation since 2015; he has also a member of local organizing committee in international competition of Lugano Trophy “Memorial Mario Albisetti” from 2006 to 2015, holding various positions. From 1993 to 2008 he was competitive racewalker, also wearing the jerseys of track and field clubs CUS Genoa and Italian Navy; with the latter club he obtained in 1999 the silver medal on 50Km walk in the Italian Championships U23.

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Racewalking sold off at the olympic “marketplace”. IAAF RW Committe proposes change race distances (deleting 50Km and 20Km)

24 January, 201925 January, 2019 by Stefano La Sorda

The fight to save the racewalking is not over yet. After the attempt in April 2017 (submerged by the protests of racewalker all over the world), the IAAF RW Committee is again proposing to remove the 50Km and 20Km. An email from IAAF RW Committee was sent on January 10 to the Member Federations of each country (with an invitation to circulate among athletes and coaches and an invitation to sent answers and suggestions to luis.saladie@iaaf.org by January 28), claiming that now <<is the tim...

IAAF athletes’ commission letter to WADA: “RUSADA can not be reinstate”

20 September, 2018 by Stefano La Sorda

Yesterday IAAF athletes commission sent a letter to WADA Executive Committee to ask not to reinstate the RUSADA anti-doping agency, as conditions still not satisfied by the russians , including the recognition and acceptance of evidences of the Russia national doping, listed in the McLaren report. The letter (the content of which is available on the IAAF website) it is a direct consequence of the polemics born in the last days after the news that WADA would propose a compromise to Russia, to al...

Schwazer case: investigations about IAAF emails stolen by Fancy Bears, involves italian journalist Nando Sanvito?

18 September, 201821 September, 2018 by Stefano La Sorda

Swiss police tighten the circle around Fancy Bears, but more news could come from Italy. Is just a few hours ago the news of a Swiss investigation about the cyber attacks against WADA by the phantom group of Russian hackers. The proceedings, launched in March 2017 but only now known, are conducted "on charges of political espionage" against two Russian spies already arrested in the Netherlands (and extradited to Russia) following an operation in joint intelligence service between Great Britain, ...

Doping: provisional suspension for ukrainan racewalkers Glavan and Kovalenko

25 July, 201826 July, 2018 by Stefano La Sorda

Kiev (UKR) - The Ukrainian racewalking is facing a possible scandal due to the precautionary suspension for doping of two of its top athletes, Nazar Kovalenko and Igor Glavan. For Kovalenko, suspended as early as March 27, 2017 and waiting for a decision of his national antidoping court, everything would depend on anomalies in his biological passport; the confirmation of the suspension came after the publication on the website of the Athletics Integrity Unit of the list of disciplinary proceedi...

Schwazer: urine contain only one DNA. The conspiracy theory falls apart.

5 April, 20185 April, 2018 by Stefano La Sorda

The RIS of Parma (italian gendarmerie) has completed the verification of DNA by detecting the profile of a single person, identical for both sample A and sample B. It is the first result of the analysis on the content of urine that led to the second doping disqualification of Alex Schwarzer. The last check of correspondence with the DNA that will be extracted in these days from the saliva of the former south tyrolean athlete, is still to be held. The conspiracy theory then begins to lose pieces...

Perseus Karlstrom and Beki Smith wins in Adelaide the first race of IAAF RW Challenge

11 February, 201811 February, 2018 by Stefano La Sorda

Adelaide (AUS) - The first race of the IAAF Racewalking challenge is decided only in the final both for the men's and women's 20Km events; the competitions were also valid to assign the title of champion of Oceania and Australian. The men's 20Km race is won by Perseus Karlstrom (SWE) who in 1h20'30'' precedes Marius Liukas (LTU) in the last meters and only one second ; third Yerko Cortes (CHI) in 1h21'31'', fourth and champion of the Oceania, Quentin Rew (NZL) in 1h21'55''. One of the favorit...

Doping of Schwazer 2012: FIDAL doctors sentenced for omissive aiding. But who exults continues to tell lies.

25 January, 201817 May, 2021 by Stefano La Sorda

UPDATE OF 10 DECEMBER 2019 the Court of Appeal overturned the first degree sentence: no aiding and abetting by the former FIDAL doctors and the former head of the technical area. Pierluigi Fiorella, Giuseppe Fischetto and Rita Bottiglieri were acquitted because "the fact does not exist". After years of trial and numerous postponements of the hearings, it came the first instance conviction against the FIDAL doctors and one employee , accused of having favored with their omissions the doping o...

Nick Christie and Katie Burnett‏ KING and QUEEN of USATF 50Km race walk

22 January, 201823 January, 2018 by Stefano La Sorda

Santee (USA) - The Anza-Borrego desert is not so far...Nick Christie probably thought also to this, while the most classic of crises tried to sink him. His race was going very regular, but we know that the 50Km reserve bad surprises; so the californian walker had to face a sharp physical drop between the 42nd and the 47th kilometer. But this did not stop him, the finish was now close and Christie managed to put a bit of brilliance in the athletic gesture of the last 2Km, thus winning a heroic 5...

GREGORIO ANGELINI: “in Greece weather was crazy, but I don’t stop here”

18 January, 201819 January, 2018 by Stefano La Sorda

One of the qualities of a racewalker should be sure to never give up; to Gregorio Angelini, young U23 of the athletics club "Alteratletica Locorotondo", this quality is not lacking. Last Sunday he took part in the 50Km Greek championship, in an infamous day from the meteorological point of view. Last year, again in January, Gregorio had succeeded in the "pirate" undertaking to win the 50km of the Portuguese championships by retouching his PB to 4h08'22'', this year the withdrawal in Hellenic lan...

Meryem Bekmez EXTRAORDINARY in Istanbul. 5 national record in one race!!!!!

16 January, 201816 January, 2018 by Stefano La Sorda

Istanbul (TUR) - "Record machine", as the Turkish Athletics Federation defined she. Meryem Bekmez (seventeen) last saturday triumphed in the indoor racewalk 5000m, after realizing a true feat. The racewalker coached by Çetin Aslan in one shot has achieved 5 national records: Turkish record U20 in the transition to 2000m: 8'35''50 Turkish record U20 and Over20 (Senior) in the transition to 3000m: 13'05''40 Turkish record U20 and Over20 (Senior) on 5000m: 21'54''20 Bekmez had alrea...