Italian Olympic Committee (CONI)
President Giovanni Malagò said Thursday that two-year ban
requests for 26 athletes "have caused a lot of confusion...the
anti-doping organisation's citations were a formality and only
for 2009-2012...these lads did not cheat".
Malagò said the case concerned faulty "communications of
presence", not actively eluding tests.
He said the Italian athletics federation "is not only in the
clear but in certain respects it is a victim".
The National Anti-Doping Organisation NADO on Wednesday
asked that the 26 Italian athletics competitors be banned for
two years for dodging tests.
The athletes named included sprinter Simone Collio,
middle-distance runner Andrea Lalli, triple jumper Fabrizio
Donato, retired former pole-vault world champ Giuseppe
Gibilisco, triple jumper Daniele Greco and long jumper Andrew
Howe.
The requests came after NADO assessed a probe by Carabinieri
in the northern Italian towns of Trento and Bolzano.
The full list of the athletes involved is: Roberto
BERTOLINI; Migidio BOURIFA; Filippo CAMPIOLI; Simone COLLIO;
Roberto DONATI; Fabrizio DONATO; Giovanni FALOCI; Matteo GALVAN;
Giuseppe GIBILISCO; Daniele GRECO; Andrew HOWE; Anna INCERTI;
Andrea LALLI; Stefano LA ROSA; Claudio LICCIARDELLO; Daniele
MEUCCI; Christian OBRIST; Ruggero PERTILE; Jacques RIPARELLI;
Silvia SALIS; Fabrizio SCHEMBRI; Daniele SECCI; Kaddour SLIMANI;
Gianluca TAMBERI; Marco Francesco VISTALLI; Silvia WEISSTEINER.
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