“The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) acknowledges the evidence of further investigations into the case of the Italian walker Alex Schwazer, the results of which confirm that the athlete’s sample collected on January 1, 2016 by World Athletics was not the subject of any form of manipulation “.
The world anti-doping agency, Wada, underlines this in a statement in reference to the order of the investigating judge of Bolzano which in February had established that the urine sample of Alex Schwazer that led to the second disqualification for doping of the blue walker could be been manipulated.
“The order of February 18, 2021 of the Judge for Preliminary Investigations of Bolzano, Italy, Walter Pelino, established that Mr. Schwazer’s sample could have been manipulated – it is written in the Wada note -. This order was based on the affirmation that the concentration of DNA in the sample was excessively high to be physiologically possible and that for this reason the sample must have been manipulated “. “At the request of Wada, Professor Martial Saugy, anti-doping scientist at the University of Lausanne, in Switzerland – continues the statement -, examined the scenario of manipulation described in the order of Judge Pelino. The report by Professor Saugy, which was published in these last hours, establishes how the scenario of manipulation prefigured by Judge Pelino is completely implausible and that there is no analytical evidence to confirm it “.
“Wada has always believed that the theory of manipulation of the judge was not supported by facts – comments the director general of the world anti-doping agency, Olivier Niggli -. The results of the DNA study and the re-examination of the evidence by Professor Saugy confirm our position and fully refute Giudice Pelino’s theory, based on a series of erroneous assumptions “.
Source: Ansa
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