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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: 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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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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Alex Schwazer 8 year ban: came the motivations of TAS-CAS

by Stefano La Sorda
In the chaos created by the pro-Schwazer newspapers, on January 31, 2017, the long-awaited motivations from the TAS had arrived as a "slap" in relation to the eight-year doping disqualification imposed on the south tyrolean, by now former athlete. On that occasion some italian journalists wrote about the document, but reporting only minimal details, not allowing readers to understand what were the reasons for sporting justice. Only at the beginning of March was the same Court of Arbitration for...
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