Schwazer's moment of truth is approaching

Attorney Gerhard Brandstätter has him in SportNews interview as “the only sporting way” described. Now he and his client Alex Schwazer have left it. In collaboration with the London law firm Morgan Sport Law, they have filed a multi-page appeal with a request for a temporary lifting of Schwazer's eight-year doping ban. The case is now before the Swiss Federal Court in Lausanne. The responsible examining judge gave the other parties until Tuesday (April 27) to submit their written statements. In particular, the World Doping Agency WADA, as a co-plaintiff against Schwazer in the criminal trial, reacted with indignation to the decision of the Bolzano investigating judge Walter Pelino to stop the criminal proceedings against Schwazer. She wrote an emotional defense statement. Loud ARD -Doping editorial team had WADA quoted as saying that this was “not due process”. The Cologne doping control laboratory also wisely, loudly ARD , “fully and emphatically rejects all allegations of alleged manipulation of the doping control urine samples.” Schwazer's defense is certain that the manipulation of the urine samples was first carried out in Stuttgart, during an unsupervised moment, and later in the laboratory in Cologne. Brandstätter should have evidence of this. These are urgently needed because the Federal Court only intervenes in the event of serious procedural errors. In any case, it now remains to be seen whether the ban will be reassessed by the next higher authority as a result of the Bolzano court decision. The 2008 Olympic champion hopes that the CAS ruling will be revised in the next few days so that he can qualify at the last minute for the Summer Games in Tokyo, which begin in three months.

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Schwazer's moment of truth is approaching

The application to lift the doping ban has been submitted and the deadline for statements from the opposing parties has passed. Now Alex Schwazer's sporting future lies in the hands of an examining judge in Switzerland.

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