Doping, Schwazer case closed: 'Urine was altered'

"Archiving for not having committed the deed"

Thus the Court of Bolzano puts an end to the first instance trial for doping against Alex Schwazer.

The judge accepted the prosecutor's request, challenging the thesis of "opacity" by Iaaf and Wada in the analyzes that led to the positivity and disqualification of the walker, and raised harsh accusations against the two associations.

The judge believes "with a high degree of credibility" that the urine samples in 2016 were altered to result in the athlete being positive. 

The decision of the investigating judge follows the request of the prosecutor, last December 3, to dismiss the criminal case for Schwazer.

The investigation referred to Alex's alleged doping case, dating back to 2016, and not to the first case, from 2012 (the one admitted by the walker himself).

It all started with an inspection on January 1, 2016, following which the sports arbitration court sentenced the walker to an 8-year disqualification, which he is still serving.

The athlete has always contested the validity of this second case of presumed positivity, pointing the finger at the anomalous, very high values ​​of the DNA contained in the test tube, declaring himself the victim of a conspiracy. 

"Ideological falsehood, procedural fraud and defamation",

 these are the crimes that the investigating judge of the Court of Bolzano, Walter Pelino, hypothesizes against who would have manipulated the test tubes of Alex Schwazer, in the sentence on the doping trial in which the position of the walker and 'filed for "not having committed the deed".

The judge, who speaks of the "self-referentiality" of the world athletics federation (Iaaf) and of the world anti-doping agency (Wada), of the manipulation of test tubes, of the mud machine, sends the documents back to the prosecutor inviting him to investigate those crimes.

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According to his lawyer Gerhard Brandstaetter, "the judge has investigated the matter in an extraordinary way. The satisfaction is obviously great, because we have fought for this for years".

As soon as possible Schwazer will take action in civil justice, but also in sports for a lifting of the disqualification.

"Reasons of this magnitude of a criminal judge certainly need to be taken into consideration," Brandstaetter points out.