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European Championships U18 Banska Bystrica 2024: racewalking timetable and streaming

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

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...
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Schwazer still at the CAS: new hearing scheduled in a week

by adminmarcia
Yet another chapter of the Schwazer case has been scheduled for February 27, 2024. The former South Tyrolean race walker will once again find himself in a hearing (probably remotely) before the CAS court in Lausanne to once again discuss the request for a doping ban reduction rejected by WADA at the end of 2023. What we read in the only official information on the Court of Arbitration for Sport website is that case no. CAS 2023/A/10209 would concern not an appeal against the World Anti-Doping A...
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Schwazer: prosecutor dismisses investigation into alleged conspiracy. No evidence.

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

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...
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Podebrady 2021: Half of Italian team blocked at the airport

by Alessandro Fato
Unexpected event at the airport for the Italian team of the European Cup. The part of the team departing from Fiumicino airport has seen its flight canceled due to problems with the aircraft. All postponed with a flight departing at 18:40 which however will force some of the team's athletes to stay overnight in Frankfurt. Tomorrow morning the unfortunate athletes will have to take another flight from Frankfurt to Prague, thus delaying their arrival in the Czech Republic by one day. The event ...
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Schwazer: the urgent request also rejected by Swiss Federal Court

by Stefano La Sorda
Another stop to Alex Schwazer's hopes. The Swiss Federal Court rejected, by decree of 11 May 2021, the request for urgent suspension of the disqualification filed by the lawyers of the former South Tyrolean athlete. In detail, the Court held that "there are no conditions" for a suspension of the disqualification or for other urgent measures. Therefore, only the request for review of the sporting process remains in place, for which a few days ago WADA and World Athletics had obtained an extension...
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Schwazer’s new appeal to suspend disqualification: contrary opinion by WADA, World Athletics, CAS and … Yohann Diniz

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...
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The movies list in which heel and toe appears

by Flora Tadonasse
In Italian cinema productions the racewalking rarely appeared, compared to other sports disciplines, most of the time in a comical way. Everyone should remember the "little marathon" (in italian "maratonina") of the film Mamma mia che impressione (1951, directed by Roberto Savarese), with a blond Alberto Sordi in race together with real racewalkers of the period who acted as extras. Among these Mario Lelli (famous for having set the world record for racewalking backwards in 1952), Carlo Bomba (k...
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“Takeaway” the new film about love, doping and racewalking

by Flora Tadonasse
A feature film shot entirely in Terminillo, the Guidobaldi Stadium and the City of Rieti; this is Takeaway, produced by Alfredo Federico and Simona Banchi for 39 FILMS srl and Interzone Pictures. Il director Renzo Carbonera (Resina and the short film La penna di Hemingway) kicked off a few days ago the filming of the movie that will be about racewalking, doping and a love story between revenge and redemption. The territory of Rieti was not only used for filming, but also for the scouting of seco...
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