Schwazer, lawyers: “Wada initiatives deserve only contempt, let’s go to Strasbourg”

“These Wada initiatives deserve only contempt, we are going to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg”. These are the harsh reply in a note by Alex Schwazer’s lawyers to yesterday’s note from the World Anti-Doping Agency, according to which the tubes of the blue walker ‘have not undergone any manipulation’. “To err could also be human (not in this case, because there is, to say the least, bad faith) but persevering is diabolicum!”, Write the lawyers. “Insisting with secret appraisals, beyond any contradiction, by disputed subjects, on phantom urine, without observing any procedure, only betrays the desperate attempt to justify an unjustifiable procedure, seriously flawed from the beginning, from Racines to Rio , with violation of every elementary principle of a fair trial, including arbitration “, continue the lawyers of the walker Gerhard Brandstaetter and Thomas Tiefenbrunner.” He confirms the failure to comply with the ruling of an Italian judge on the basis of a high-level technical and scientific assessment; in this context, concrete counter-proofs could and should have been provided, which were not produced, indeed, even in that case, a belated, non-contradictory, absolutely adventurous and unsustainable expert opinion was used “. “Wada’s embarrassment must be great if one tries to make amends with such illegitimate initiatives; all in the face of a documented confessory statement by Iaaf, which speaks of a ‘plot against AS’, that is, a plot against Alex Schwazer! “, the lawyers conclude.