Doping DSQ assigns to Italy and Marco De Luca the gold of Euro Cup 2015

10 February, 202110 February, 2021 by Stefano La Sorda

Results have not yet been updated but there is little to formalize: Italy and Marco De Luca go to team and individual gold in the racewalk 50km of European Cup 2015 in Murcia (ESP). The russian walker Ivan Noskov had already been disqualified in 2016 for 4 years due to positivity at the EPO, but the disqualification had only canceled his results from 2 June 2015 to 15 July 2015, leaving valid the first place obtained in the European Cup in May of 2015. Justice, however, arrived, albeit with del...

Hoax of plot against Schwazer throws mud on Gallitelli and NADO Italy

23 October, 20202 April, 2021 by Stefano La Sorda

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TAS-CAS reply to false accusations of Italian newspapers about Schwazer case

23 October, 20201 May, 2021 by Stefano La Sorda

TAS-CAS of Lausanne reply to the false accusations by the italian newspaper "La Repubblica" about Schwazer case. In the journalistic investigation entitled "The glory and the mud" by journalists Carlo Bonini, Attilio Bolzoni and Fabio Tonacci, the Sports Arbitration Tribunal was accused of having presided in 2016 in Rio a "farce trial" against Alex Schwazer. However, the press office of the TAS-CAS replied to a simple e-mail from us with a copy of the article from "La Repubblica" attached. An e...

Prof. Giardina: “Schwazer DNA urine is not anomalous, it’s just his”

24 September, 202025 September, 2020 by Stefano La Sorda

In the general euphoria transmitted "to unified networks" by the RCS editorial group (big italian newspaper "Gazzetta dello sport" and "Corriere della sera" that in the last week have claimed in one way the conspiracy theory against Schwazer), newspapers and televisions that talk about the case have given almost no space to the voice of World Athletics (formerly IAAF), the offended part against the former South Tyrolean athlete still disqualified for doping until 2024 and under criminal investig...

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...

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...

Finally the real podium of 50Km in Rome 2016 (VIDEO). Jared Tallent and Marco De Luca heroes of clean sport

9 May, 20189 May, 2018 by adminmarcia

Taicang (CHN) - It took two years, but finally even this shame of doping has been completely erased. The IAAF has chosen to repeat the award ceremony of the racewalk 50Km in Rome 2016 on the occasion of the 2018 Team World Championships, also to give the right spotlight to the event. The story is well known: Alex Schwazer who came first to the finish line of 50Km in Rome 2016, in August of the same year he was disqualified (again) due to doping, with consequent cancellation of his result. The p...

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...

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...

Slovak media rejoice: “Toth is innocent!”

22 December, 20178 January, 2018 by Stefano La Sorda

The last 24 hours of tension for Matej Toth are finally over; for him a real liberation has arrived. Already in the late afternoon of yesterday, numerous Slovak websites reported the news that the IAAF had renounced to appeal of the TAS against the absolution of the strong racewalker from doping charges. This morning the confirmation of the Slovak Athletics Federation has arrived, with a statement posted on his official website: <<On Thursday, December 21, shortly before 19:00, the Athle...