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From mid & agrave; September, there is much talk of the involvement of Carolina Kostner in the doping case of & rsquo; former partner Alex Schwarzer.
Saturday 17 January 2015 8 minutes reading time
Both you & egrave; bed and much more will come & agrave; written, but l & rsquo; & egrave impression; that few have really understood the why & eacute; the condemnation of the skater, right hand final.
Kostner not & egrave; was disqualified for sixteen months because & eacute; was aware of the practices of doping & rsquo; then-boyfriend, as erroneously claimed by many, primarily figures who hold institutional positions, but because & eacute; committed by tesserata FISG CONI and a violation of anti-doping rules in force. Basically, you & egrave; complicit in & rsquo; evade control surprise. The fact that he knew or not the irregularities & agrave; perpetrated by Schwarzer is absolutely irrelevant.
Sure, you can & ograve; discuss or less on congruit & agrave; disqualification established by the National Anti-Doping Tribunal. Maybe you could opt for a stop of a single year, but there were no grounds for a full acquittal. In addition, the many contradictions that emerged during interrogation did not represent an argument in favor of & rsquo; athlete.
Stands for & ograve; a spontaneous question. It would not be appropriate to admit immediately l & rsquo; error, citing superficiality & agrave; in managing a complex situation from personal boundaries and cooperating in all respects with the prosecutor, rather than continuing to look for a defense, the right hand, would appear to be without foundation?
Also, judgment archived, & egrave; still appropriate to proclaim his innocence itself as the victim of a huge wrong that the violation & egrave; was actually accomplished? If we moved in & rsquo; field of criminal law, it should, in fact, speak of & ldquo; & rdquo ;. completed offense
Probably, a & rsquo; admission of guilt in full, noting all the difficult circumstances of the case, would convince the National Anti-Doping Tribunal to choose a lighter sentence, provided that there was really a chance & agrave; to halve the two-year suspension required by the Anti-doping prosecutor.
In all these situations, we remain astonished in front of & rsquo; attitude FISG (Italian Ice Sports Federation), he posted on a corporate website a press release entitled & ldquo; Carolina Kostner: Judgment unacceptable! & Rdquo; placing itself on a collision course with CONI, whose FISG part. Screeching in particular the words of the President Andrea Gios: & ldquo; This decision leaves me perplexed and saddened me greatly. Are increasingly & ugrave; convinced of the complete innocence of Carolina Kostner and the fact that he did not know that Mr. Schwarzer was dopando. The judges of the Court Doping have committed a gross error of judgment and have misrepresented the reality & agrave; of facts based on mere presumptions and devoid of any legal basis, and often illogical. A & rsquo; athlete in many years of career and successes & egrave; always been an example, in and out of ice rinks. A ruling that absolutely must be contested because & eacute; injures Italian sports and all athletes who identify serious and transparent in the exemplary career of Carolina & rdquo ;.
While sharing the sorrow of the highest authorities & agrave; FISG, one wonders how it can be questioned professionalism & agrave; Judges of the Court Doping, figures absolutely above the parties who have taken note of what just happened to Oberstdorf in the morning offending.
There is now talk insistently of an appeal to the CAS in Lausanne, which, for the condemnation of & rsquo; athlete, would require the & ldquo; full awareness of conduct & rdquo ;. However, & egrave; really credible that Kostner was not aware of violating an anti-doping rule lying to an officer WADA? You can & ograve; really think that any athlete of international level, used to being subjected to checks, has not in such a case full awareness of their actions?
In conclusion, a sorry figure the likes of Carolina Kostner was unwillingly involved in a situation unedifying. Nobody put & agrave; never questioned the career of & rsquo; athlete and that it represents an example not only sport with few equals.
Ci & ograve; Accordingly, you can not & ograve; endorsing the thesis, supported by many fans and some insiders, that the high level results can be considered as an exonerating can guarantee impunity & agrave; in case of error. Would pass a wrong message, that would undermine the & rsquo; whole system of Italian sport from the ground up.
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