The alleged doping case that shocked the world of Italian athletics has displaced everyone: from federal officials to athletes up to journalists and the Bolzano prosecutor's office itself, which conducted the investigations and then delivered the results to the Nado-Italia Anti-Doping Prosecutor's Office .
Everything seems to have started from the case of positivity (this time true) of Alex Schwazer who by his own admission explained that he had doped in view of the 2012 London Olympics. From here the investigations then expanded to doping control systems of Azzurri athletes, from notifications of availability to the avoidance of checks.
And Pandora's box has been opened. Twenty-six Azzurri have systematically skipped the checks or "forgotten" to communicate their availability in time and today they risk a 2-year disqualification for faults that they only partially have.
As far as you can guess here it is precisely the control management system that is doped. And we don't say this, but it is an admission of those at the top of Fidal and Coni.
For example, in a heated press conference, the number one of Fidal Alfio Giomi (the Italian Athletics Federation) explained that perhaps some athletes "will have been guilty of negligence and superficiality in having taken communications lightly, but with the doping has nothing to do with it”.
The same president of Coni Giovanni Malagò immediately wanted to clarify that no athlete cheated and that “there were innumerable flaws in the old control systems. The Federation and the accused are victims of the system. It is absurd to ask for the maximum sentence for young people who have never received a warning or a warning”.
But perhaps this very sad epilogue has come about precisely because those reminders and admonitions to the athletes never came.
