Posted on 25/11/2019 da Luca Landoni in News, Sandro Donati // No commentWith reference to today's interview with Giovanni Evangelisti in Corriere della Sera that we resumed this morning by extrapolating the most significant parts, Professor Sandro Donati, having been called into question, wrote his reconstruction of the facts exclusively for Queen Atletica for us. .His story of the story is also very faithful to the chapter of the book The Sport of Doping in which he talks about the event with precision and a wealth of details.Here, then, is his exposition of the facts that we have enriched from time to time with clarifications drawn largely from his book (and from the interview mentioned above).We have also divided everything into paragraphs to make the understanding clearer for readers.My comment on Giovanni's statements is very simple.The story that is commonly made of what happened that day in the Olympic stadium in Rome is very approximate: not only Giovanni's offending jump was rigged, in fact, but the entire match.This can be clearly seen from the often marked discrepancy between the measures assigned to his opponents (by subtraction) and to himself (by addition) in the various jumps and the measures taken by the Czechoslovakian biomechanical team who worked around the platform and measured the jump with its own instruments.So the whole race was biased.Giovanni's interpretation of the offending jump is simplistic also for another, fundamental reason: if I had warned him of the planned manipulation, Giovanni would have reacted in some way ... therefore they would not have carried it out and would have accused me of slander.It is absurd to let someone know (in this case the managers of FIDAL and the Group of Race Judges) that you know that he is about to commit an illegal action.Evangelisti was and remains a clean athleteI am perfectly aware that the splendid resume of a champion like him was superimposed on a story that was the fault of others and that he has largely suffered.Giovanni himself reminded me of his bewilderment in finding himself in that situation and of the consequent fear of living a story greater than himself and manipulated by others.Moreover, he had no knowledge of such serious precedents and it was difficult even to imagine what had happened in front of tens of thousands of spectators.Giovanni was left with a label unrelated to him and his career as a champion, at the time among the few opponents of doping, to me the perennial marginalization and resentment of the FIDAL of the time and of the FIDAL management that have been there ever since. happened.Editor's note: even in his book Donati completely exonerates the Rimini jumper who, according to him, "was obviously in the dark" (Lo Sport del Doping, page 93).The figure of Dino Ponchio *On the sidelines and therefore out of any reference to Giovanni, I remember that to his coach Dino Ponchio I told, at the Stadio dei Marmi, before the match, that Giovanni (at that time suffering from severe back pain) "would have jumped 8.37, centimeter more or centimeter less ".Since I have never possessed divinatory virtues, once the race was complete, Ponchio should have remembered with amazement that phrase (which I said to him in front of the technicians Plinio Castrucci and Federico Leporati who confirmed it to the Gazzetta dello Sport) ... instead he said he didn't remember it.* at the time coach of Evangelisti, EdDonati reports the fraud to the Carabinieri *The next day (of the race, Ed.), I go to the carabinieri station of Ponte Milvio, directed by Marshal Palumbo and I present a complaint that is immediately transmitted to the Public Prosecutor of Rome [...] I indicate to the marshal the people who are in able to testify.I also produce a detailed reconstruction of how the heads of the race judges group assembled the long jump jury in order to keep away the judges who would have lent themselves to manipulate the race and, finally, of how by processing the video images I can demonstrate that Evangelisti's jump was about half a meter shorter.* this part we took directly from the book (see pages 94-95)Copyright © 2022 |Gamefox News All rights reserved |VAT number 02239830223