Schwazer doping ban ends, will compete

(ANSA) - Rome, April 28 - 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.