Overview
- Schwazer was found positive for erythropoietin in both urine and blood from the anti‑doping control at the German racewalking championships on April 26.
- His lawyer, Gerhard Brandstätter, said the defence has reversed course and will request opening and analysis of the B‑sample after initially conditioning any challenge on testing a separately held residual sample.
- A separately held 'third vial' of residual urine, which reports say was kept by coach Sandro Donati, was refused for examination by the German anti‑doping agency and is not part of standard counter‑analysis procedures.
- Procedural uncertainty clouds the case because anti‑doping rules set a short window for filing counter‑analysis requests and coverage reports say more than 90 days have passed since the April control.
- Schwazer’s long history of prior doping sanctions and litigation, including a 2012 admission and later Italian judicial archiving of one case, shapes both his distrust of testing and the potential sporting consequences he now faces.