Olympic race walker Alex
Schwazer's three-and-a-half year competition ban for doping
ended Friday, and his coach Sandro Donati said Olympic high
jumper Gianmarco Tamberi was wrong for calling Schwazer "the
shame of Italy" on Thursday.
"Alex is a person who made a mistake, who suffered very
much for his error; rightfully, he wasn't given even one day of
reduction of his ban and it's right that way," Donati said,
adding that Schwazer is currently being tested for doping every
six to seven days on average.
"At this point there needs to be respect, and I would say
that this attack qualifies the one who made it and the one who
provoked it," Donati said.
On Thursday, Tamberi wrote on Facebook that Schwazer should
be banned from competition for life.
"Our strength is being clean, we don't want him on the
national team," Tamberi wrote.
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