Alex Schwazer talks about his legal battle since 2016 at the Trento Sports Festival
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Alex Schwazer, guest of the Trento Sports Festival, talked about his legal battle that began in 2016 to obtain justice after a positive doping test, underlining the emotional and physical weight of five years of legal battle, the support of his wife and the difficulty of facing the trial alone, stating that if he had known how demanding it would have been he would probably have given up immediately.
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Why It Matters
Alex Schwazer is an Italian race walker from South Tyrol who in 2016 tested positive for doping in an out-of-competition test, an event that began a long legal battle to obtain justice and a return to competition.
These last weeks and months have been a bit special again, because beyond normal, personal and professional life, there is also a positivity to which I have to respond, and therefore in these last weeks and months we have tried to understand some things, which obviously cost a lot of energy, but it must be done. This was said by Alex Schwazer, guest of the Trento Sports Festival, in Piazza Duomo. "I believe that this latest positivity is a little different than that of 2016, because I have the experience of 2016: I know what it means to fight in the various judicial offices to obtain justice. In 2016 I didn't have the faintest idea of what it meant. I thought two years, but instead they were quite difficult five years. I can't do this and I don't want to do this anymore", added Schwazer.
"I have never felt alone. As far as Italian sport is concerned, or in any case even the sporting environment, yes. Because there at a certain point I was dead and everything I could do after that no longer counted for anything." Thus Alex Schwazer at the Trento Sports Festival.
"Sometimes in life you have to be lucky and have real people by your side. Because otherwise you can't make it. Since 2016 I have never missed any hearing, I actively participated in everything... Every time I had to go to court I wasn't well. If you happen to be alone there it's not easy, because then you realize that you have to fight for something you didn't do while now you should do the exact opposite, that is, compete because you deserve it. It's difficult to accept it alone. If you have someone by your side, you it helps, it cheers you up,” Schwazer added.
"If I had known that it would be a battle of this type starting in 2016, I probably would have given up straight away," said the South Tyrolean athlete. "But it has always been a process in stages. There was an appraisal, then another... And in the end we reached five years which were very challenging, and I have to say thanks to my wife, who is very intelligent and very tolerant, and has never reproached me for anything."
Open Questions
- What is the current outcome of Schwazer's legal battle?
- When could he return to competing officially?
- What are the next hearings scheduled in your case?
