Alex Schwazer will ask for the analysis of evidence B

Alex Schwazer will ask for the opening and analysis of test B, without also demanding the examination of the 'third test tube' with the residual urine, which the former race walker had always placed as a condition for counter-analysis in recent weeks. His lawyer Gerhard Brandstätter announced this in the Südtiroler Tageszeitung. Last April the South Tyrolean tested positive during the German road race championships.

"Alex initially objected to sending the request, but in the end we still managed to persuade him," Brandstätter tells the newspaper. Schwazer had requested the counter-analysis of the B test tubes on the condition that the 'third test tube' with the 'residual' urine delivered during the anti-doping control on 26 April was examined.

The South Tyrolean had reiterated on several occasions that he had no faith in the controls, also given the long legal tug-of-war over the stop imposed in 2012, which ended with the athlete's dismissal under criminal law because "the fact does not exist" while sporting justice has never changed its line.