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President Seb Coe warns Italy over Alex Schwazer case

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...
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Alex Schwazer thinks we are fools?

by Stefano La Sorda
May be Alex Schwazer believes us stupid and forgetful. It is not enough for him to appear everywhere (newspapers, Sanremo and numerous other TV appearances), will also come a television series which will be "freely" taken from new book in which Sandro Donati will tell us about the "world conspiracy against Alex Schwazer"; obviously from the point of view of an alleged WADA consultant. Yesterday further and avoidable 10 minutes of interview in the well-known TV show"Le Iene", than with the repor...
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The truth is that Schwazer was not acquitted. What happens now?

by Stefano La Sorda
Criminal doping charges against Alex Schwazer have been dismissed, the GIP (Judge of preliminary investigations) of Bolzano, Walter Pelino, has closed his position in the order of 87 pages that he did kick up a fuss not just for the alleged urine manipulation that is believed “proven with a high degree of rational probability”, but also for the direct attack on WADA and World Athletics. Those who speak of "sentence"in favor of Schwazer are wrong because in reality there was not even a trial. FI...
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Doping DSQ assigns to Italy and Marco De Luca the gold of Euro Cup 2015

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...
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Today is my birthday… #SAVETHERACEWALKING

by adminmarcia
Today is my birthday and I would like a nice gift. As usual, I started reviewing the collections of documents on my past races. Taken by nostalgia, I searched in vain in the drawers for photos of my only two races on 50km. I'm not there, I already knew, but I still have the two medals, a newspaper article and my name mentioned in the pages of a book that tells the 50km at the Italian championships year by year. Perhaps it is little, yet usually this was enough for me; I carry most of the memori...
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Hoax of plot against Schwazer throws mud on Gallitelli and NADO Italy

by Stefano La Sorda
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TAS-CAS reply to false accusations of Italian newspapers about Schwazer case

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...
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