The former coach to Corriere della Sera: “They sent me coded messages to abandon Alex. The anti-doping system doesn’t work and Schwarzer should compete in the European Championship”
Sandro Donati returns to the Schwazer affair and harshly attacks Wada and the anti-doping system, relentless only against his former client. “The anti-doping system produces a positivity rate constantly limited to 1% – explains Donati -. If the percentage of those who dope were really this, doping would be irrelevant. Many facts conclusively demonstrate the ineffectiveness of the system. For several years the Italian Ministry of Health carried out thousands of anti-doping checks, as required by the 2000 law. The result? A percentage of positives of 4%-5%. Therefore, five times higher than that produced by the sports system. That law was crumbled by a silent agreement. Four anti-doping laboratories that would have been very useful for carrying out monitoring, prevention and educational programs in grassroots sport were stopped. The following day the Nas police arrived at the offices to check that all activities were carried out attributable to doping had been discontinued”.
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Donati then gets to the point, returning to the Schwarzer affair: “There is complete submission to an improper body. Are we joking? The judicial system of a country is sovereign. Wada is not the UN or the WHO, it is a hybrid body that represents limited interests. A personal war of mine against Wada after the Schwarzer affair? With Alex, Wada showed the worst. It was a great achievement: to bring an athlete from doping to a clean sport. The manipulation of his urine is an act of immense gravity. A thousand times worse than the positivity of an athlete. Wada should never have come to the aid of the International Athletics Federation which was already dealing with the Russian doping scandal covered up for money. They even had the impudence to say: Donati was also cheated by Schwazer. It was a coded message to me: leave him to his fate 41 achieved the best Italian time in the walking marathon (3h01’55). Does he dream of the European Championships? Is it a topic to be addressed with a great sense of justice without putting Alex in opposition to splendid walkers who have earned the European Championship with difficulty? Of course: if Alex was not at the start of the 42 km in Birmingham, the sporting system would lose further credibility.”
