(ANSA) – ROME, NOVEMBER 10 – “This book is a sincere, frank, faithful account of what happened to me. It is not the confession of a devil and not even the apology of an angel. Whoever wants to read the biography of a sinless man must choose another, not mine “. This is how Alex Schwazer tells about himself in ‘After the finish line’, the book published by Feltrinelli to be released tomorrow. After the dismissal of the second criminal case for doping “for not having committed the crime”, Schwazer wants to return to racing. His is a story of falls and redemptions, renunciations and rebirths.
The 36-year-old walker from Vipiteno becomes a champion when he was young, perhaps too young: “My vocabulary included only two words, training and rest. I didn’t have a favorite color or a favorite dish. I didn’t have a pastime, a passion or a goal that I didn’t have. were the march “.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics he climbed to the highest podium in the 50 km walk. It is the culmination of a dream. He’s only twenty-three. But that triumph complicates everything. It’s like kryptonite to him. It wears out. More and more alone, and in the throes of depression, he goes to Turkey and buys erythropoietin, a forbidden hormone. A few weeks before the 2012 Olympics, control arrives, and it is positive. No London. No more sports, perhaps. An exemplary punishment. But it is precisely then that the fever that is before and after each goal returns, the future that stretches in the air: “When I hit rock bottom, I wondered how I got into that situation – Schwazer’s words – That day it marked the rebirth of the man I had inside and who for a long time had not found space to go out.That day I realized that I was in an immense and apparently hopeless labyrinth, in which I had been groping for years.
A labyrinth in which I had lost everything. The person I was, my girlfriend, the credibility, the dignity. Only now have I come out of it. “” I survived an ambush, a devious and cruel plot that at other times would have annihilated me – underlines the South Tyrolean – Even today, five years later, I don’t know how I managed to keep the ‘equilibrium. This is the story I want to tell “. (ANSA).
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