Andrea Iannone's D-Day after his positive for doping: Final goodbye or immediate return?

• News: FIM suspends Andrea Iannone for 18 months for doping with steroids

"This is the most important day of my life, I would never have expected to experience this situation. I am suffering, but at the same time I am more mature. This time has taught me that everything in life is unpredictable. Now I do hear people complain about useless things, I tell them to learn to appreciate the things they have. My life has changed. From one day to the next I found myself unable to do what I have always done. I do not wish this on anyone. "

Andrea Iannone

was always a complex driver.

His rivals and teammates said so, such as

, with whom he had multiple discussions.

Their mechanics said so, who suffered their ups and downs.

Anyone who spoke to him and discovered that he defined himself in the third person said it.

An artificial, distant, labyrinthine character ... but nobody imagined him like that anyway.

This Thursday, Iannone will make history in MotoGP and not exactly positive: for the first time in the World Championship, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS) of Lausanne will decide on the doping of a rider.

On the table, two very different paths to his 18-month sanction for using steroids.

If the arguments of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) are successful, his punishment will be extended to four years and very possibly that will mean his final goodbye from MotoGP.

If, instead, his arguments succeed, the sentence will be overturned and Iannone could even run again this season.

The pilot's lawyer,

, based his defense on the accidental ingestion of the prohibited substance due to the consumption of contaminated meat in Asia, but the AMA maintains that he committed an irregularity.

"I feel kidnapped, as if my life had been stolen. My duty is to follow the rules and hope that justice takes its course," Iannone commented this Wednesday at a press conference in Milan in which he also assured that, in this period , has received offers from several brands and that his, Aprilia, awaits him with open arms: "I am grateful to all the people who have offered me something interesting. But I refused everything because the priority is to get back on the bike as soon as possible. possible, in Aprilia, on the track. I never thought about quitting, I still have a lot to say. I started a project with Aprilia a year ago and I feel the need to complete it. "

In fact, despite what happened, Aprilia's general manager,

, supported the rider and assured that they are not going to replace him: "We are convinced of his innocence, we know Andrea. When he returns to the bike he will be more motivated than ever, no we can wait to see him on the bike. We hoped it would be before this summer. We miss Andrea. "

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