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...

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...

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...