Alex Schwazer banned from the Olympics because of doping

The President of Coni, Giovanni Petrucci, announced the exclusion of Alex Schwazer on Monday afternoon, after consultation with the head of the Italian delegation in London, Raffaele Pagnozzi. The walker from Kalch is said to have been detected with the substance EPO during a doping test a week ago at his training camp in Oberstdorf. Alex Schwazer decided not to start the 20 km race last Saturday after a bout of flu. In five days, on August 11th, he wanted to defend his Olympic title from Beijing 50 over 2008 km. Now, however, he has been excluded from the games. Schwazer had not yet left for London. Schwazer: “I made a mistake” "Don't ask me how I feel, I made a mistake. I wanted to be at my best in these Olympics, but I made a mistake. I did this all alone and that's why I take full responsibility. My Life as an athlete is over today," Alex Schwazer was quoted as saying by the Italian news agency ANSA. The 28-year-old Kalcher is said to have called his coach Michele Didoni an hour before the doping allegations became known and told him that he had bad news. “The athlete excluded because of doping is me (Schwazer, editor’s note),” Didoni is quoted by “La Gazzetta dello Sport”. His coach is very critical of his protégé. "At 28, you're no longer a boy, but a man. Alex has to change his life. He didn't understand that his actions also put us in a bad light," said Schwazer's coach. This is EPO The human blood circulation works more efficiently the more red blood cells are available to it, because the cells have a correspondingly large amount of oxygen available. For this reason, EPO has been abused to improve performance in sports since the late 1980s. EPO is particularly popular with endurance athletes. You benefit from the increased proportion of erythrocytes in the blood. However, this also increases the risk of blood clots. EPO (and its derivatives) have been on the International Anti-Doping Organization (WADA) doping list since 1990. Its use is prohibited in competitive sports. EPO has been detectable in urine samples since 2000. The Italian sports scientist Prof. Alessandro Donati calculated in 2007 that around half a million people worldwide use EPO.

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Alex Schwazer banned from the Olympics because of doping

The Olympic champion over 50 km in Beijing 2008 is said to have been detected with the doping substance EPO during a control on July 30th in Oberstdorf. The Italian Olympic Committee immediately banned him from the Games.

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Alex Schwazer banned from the Olympics because of doping

The Olympic champion over 50 km in Beijing 2008 is said to have been detected with the doping substance EPO during a control on July 30th in Oberstdorf. The Italian Olympic Committee immediately banned him from the Games.

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