The nightmare doping returns to scare the Italian sport a few months after the appointment with the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. None of the checks resulted positive, but the Nado-Italy Anti-Doping Prosecutor's Office has requested the referral and two-year disqualification of 26 Azzurri athletes who evaded anti-doping controls or who have not communicated their whereabouts to the control bodies. Requests will be examined by the Sections of the National Anti-Doping Tribunal. In the list of the Anti-Doping Prosecutor's Office there are excellent names, blues who in the recent past have carried the Italian flag on the podium of European, world and Olympic championships.
For example Joseph Gibilisco, author of a true sporting masterpiece at the Paris 2003 World Championships when he won the gold medal in the pole vault. There is also Andrew Howe, European champion in 2006 and silver medalist at the 2007 World Championships in the long jump. The list also includes the only Italian medal in athletics at the last Olympics: the triple jump champion Fabrizio Donato.
Here is the complete list with the 26 athletes who risk missing the appointment with the London Olympics: Roberto Bertolini; Migidio Bourifa; Filippo Campioli; Simone Collio; Roberto Donati; Fabrizio Donato; Giovanni Faloci; Matthew Galvan; Giuseppe Gibilisco; Daniel Greco; Andrew Howe; Anna Unsure; Andrea Lalli; Stefano LaRosa; Claudio Licciardello; Daniel Meucci; Christian Obrist; Roger Pertile; Jacques Riparelli; Silvia Salis; Fabrizio Schembri; Daniel Secci; Daddour Slimani; Gianluca Tamberi; Marco Vistalli; Silvia Weissteiner.
The anti-doping discipline in Italy is very strict and the cyclist Riccardo Riccò knows something about it, who received a 12-year disqualification from the CONI National Court after the case of self-blood transfusion in 2012. The Court will also crack down on the Azzurri in athletics ? Difficult to understand a few hours after the news. But the mistake made by the Azzurri, en bloc, arouses heavy suspicions.
