Doping

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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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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WADA Statement on Alex Schwazer Case

by Redazione
With regard to the Schwazer case, WADA, with a long press release, has again rejected the accusations of italian judge Walter Pelino going into detail on some aspects of the criminal proceedings in which the athlete disqualified for doping was dismissed from criminal accuses. In essence, WADA highlights how the overwhelming evidence of Schwazer's guilt was totally ignored by the italian judge, who instead set his behavior as if the trial was against WADA, World Athletics and the Cologne laborat...
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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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