Doping and Olympic Games in Italy : A comparative analysis between sports regulations and Italian criminal law in the light of the events of Torino 2006 / Lucio Colantuoni, Elisa Brigandi, Edoardo Revello. – (International Sports Law Journal (2012) 1-2 : p. 41-42)
Content:
Part I – Doping and Italian Regulations
1.) The Regulatory Frameword On Doping
1.1.) Introduction: the global evolution of the fight against doping
1.2.) The regulatory framework in Italy and the enactment of Law n. 376/2000
2.) A Comparative Analysis Amongst Sports Regulations and Criminal Law
2.1.) The mutual autonomy of the Italian criminal proceeding and the anti-doping sporting proceeding
2.2.) A critical, comparative analysis of the two systems: rules and sanctions
2.3.) The classification of the doping substance: requirements for the application of Law n.376/2000 and the disciplinary provisions
2.4.) The subjective and objective aspects on doping under the criminal law and the disciplinary regulations
2.5.) The disciplinary relevance of the refusal to submit to doping controls and the absence of contradictory
Part II – Doping and Olympic Games in Italy: the cases during Torino 2006:
3.) The Suspension Request of Law N.376/2000 in Occasion of Torino 2006: The Position of the Italian Government and the so called “Storace” Decree
4.) The Anti Doping Controls During Torino 2006
5.) The Judicial and Disciplinary Cases on Doping During Torino 2006
5.1.) The facts
5.2.) The disciplinary proceedings: current status
5.2.1.) The case of Olga Pyleva
5.2.2.) The case of the Austrian Cross Country and Biathlon National Team
Conclusions
There is a general shared opinion that a severe fight against doping should be conducted with increasingly rigid measures not only from a sporting point of view but also with the intervention of the criminal law. In fact, doping represents a plague which pollutes and oppresses those values at the bottom of the Olympic spirit itself. And some countries, like Italy, have enacted a specific anti doping criminal law.
Accordingly, this article has the aim of focusing and confronting the sporting regulations and the Italian criminal law on doping, by means also of the study of the disciplinary and judiciary cases on the matter during the XX edition of the Winter Olympic Games, held in Turin in 2006. Therefore, the present study shall analyze the peculiarities of the Italian fight against doping, which caused many concerns before the Games, due to the fact that the government had qualified doping as a criminal offence. As a matter of fact, it could have created some critical issues towards the sports legal order, as well as deterrent effects in choosing Italy as the host country of the Games.
