ROME (AP) β Former figure skating world champion Carolina Kostner is being questioned by an Italian Olympic Committee prosecutor over whether she was complicit in doping by her former boyfriend and Olympic race walking gold medalist Alex Schwazer.
Kostner was a few minutes late for the hearing after failing to show up at CONI last week, when the hearing was originally scheduled.
Kostner, the 2014 Olympic bronze medalist and 2012 world champion, is being asked about reports that she told judicial officials she helped Schwazer evade a test and knew he slept with a banned altitude machine.
Schwazer tested positive before the 2012 London Olympics and was banned for 3 1/2 years.
Kostner, who is taking this year off, risks a ban of four years for aiding and failing to report Schwazer’s doping.
