SALZBURG, Austria (AP) β Biathlon’s governing body is stepping up its investigation into alleged doping infringements by one its vice presidents.
The International Biathlon Union has been gathering information since vice president Gottlieb Taschler of Italy temporarily stepped down on Saturday amid media reports he is under criminal investigation for helping his son Daniel obtain doping substances from banned doctor Michele Ferrari.
Taschler has denied any wrongdoing and calls the accusations “simply not true.”
The IBU says it has contacted the Italian Olympic Committee, and the national and world anti-doping agencies, NADO and WADA, as well as the Padua city attorney general, “and requested to share any available, relevant information.”
The IBU says, however, the Padua prosecutor’s document that media based their reporting on, “is not in the public domain, yet.”
