Bad news for Alex Schwazer, the walker at the center of a controversial legal-sports case. The Swiss Federal Court of Lausanne did not grant the precautionary measure, that is, the suspension of the disqualification that the South Tyrolean walker Alex Schwazer had requested. This is what the AGI agency has learned from the staff of the Olympic champion of the 50km race walk in Beijing 2008, disqualified for recidivism in doping until 2024.
The Swiss Court maintains that "it would not result with extreme likelihood founded which is that the relative proof would not be absolutely certain." The request for the suspension was made after what was written by the investigating magistrate of Bolzano, Walter Pelino, who indicated, in the state of the proceedings, as the most plausible hypothesis the "manipulation of the test samples" of the doping control of January 1, 2016, which then led to Schwazer's disqualification.
On the sidelines of this news is the acquittal on appeal for not having committed the fact that they had been accused for aiding and abetting during the 2012 doping.
In the first instance they had been convicted of having heard of his intention to dope himself without reporting him: they were the person responsible for the anti-doping controls of the World Federation and the doctor of the national athletics.
After three hours of council room, the "Schwazer theorem", the judiciary one - born of the revelations with which the former walker (Olympic gold in the 50 kilometers in Beijing in 2008) in 2015 had negotiated a nine-month sentence was crumbled. (and implicitly obtained for the collaboration a reduction of the sports disqualification) for his 2012 doping case, calling into question the two high Italian medical executives of the national and international athletics federation Giuseppe Fischetto and Pierluigi Fiorella who would have known of his intention to dopare without reporting it.
The Bolzano Court of Appeal, chaired by judge Silvia Monaco, has in fact completely reformed the heavy sentence of first instance (two years of imprisonment plus ancillary penalties) acquitting Giuseppe Fischetto, with full formula from the accusation of aiding to doping (in violation of law 676 of 2000) responsible for the anti-doping controls of the World and Health Federation of the Italian Federation and Pierluigi Fiorella, doctor of the National Athletics Association and the athlete's staff. Acquisition (in this case requested by the attorney general) for Rita Bottiglieri, who at the time worked at Fidal.
Pending the reasons, the ruling suggests that the Court did not believe in the 2015 Alex Schwazer testimony-confession that - after denying for two years of being supported by someone in the search for doping substances before the London 2012 Games - he confessed to having revealed the hiring of EPO to Fiorella who was also his trusted doctor during a meeting urgently requested by the walker and which took place in Parma. Fischetto, on the other hand, had been accused of having had knowledge of abnormal parameters in Schwazer's tests but had not reported him adequately to the control authorities. Schwazer turned out to be positive at the EPO two months after the disputed facts to the doctors, after a surprise check ordered by the Iaaf. The defendants are in tears.