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Case Vuskovic: Lawyers go before Cas and DFB Federal Court
Mario Vuskovic had been banned for two years by the DFB sports court for EPO doping. photo
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The doping case Mario Vuskovic continues after the judgment of the DFB sports court. There are three appeals to the federal court. The Vuskovic side goes one step further.
The judgment of the DFB sports court in the doping case Mario Vuskovic may deal with the International Sports Court (CAS) sooner than expected.
In addition to appealing to the Federal Court, the lawyers for the professional from the second division Hamburger SV have also lodged an objection with the international arbitration court in Lausanne. In addition to Vuskovic, the DFB Control Committee and the National Anti-Doping Agency (Nada) also appealed to the Federal Supreme Court. This was announced by the DFB. Vuskovic was banned for two years by the DFB sports court last Thursday for EPO doping.
“First of all, the DFB federal court is granting all appellants time until the end of April to submit the necessary grounds for appeal,” Achim Späth, chairman of the federal court, was quoted as saying in the association’s announcement on Thursday. The committee is expected to decide on the defense’s application in two weeks, “to let the proceedings before the DFB Federal Court rest for the time being until the International Sports Court, or Cas for short, which has also been called by the defense, decides on the approval of the appeal that has also been filed there has”.
Vuskovic: I won’t let that break me
Vuskovic maintains his innocence. “I will not let it break me and will fight to the end to prove the truth,” the 21-year-old central defender wrote on Instagram the day after the verdict was announced.
With its verdict, the sports court stayed under the maximum ban of four years. In a statement, Nada wrote that it would apply for the planned four-year ban. The chairman of the DFB control committee, Anton Nachreiner, justified the appeal by saying that “new information and facts may come to light” in the course of the further proceedings.
During the three days of negotiations before the sports court, the Vuskovic case had developed into a fundamental dispute about the epo analysis. The Croatian’s defenders had questioned the analysis method used by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) for 20 years, citing several experts.