Gymnast Dipa Karmakar explains reason behind taking provisional suspension in doping case
Other Sports | February 04, 2023 22:47 ISTKarmakar said she is looking forward to returning to gymnastics in July this year.
Karmakar said she is looking forward to returning to gymnastics in July this year.
Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Thursday said that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has restored the accreditation of the National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL), which was suspended in 2019 because of its failure to meet global standards.
A decision that will benefit the likes of boxer Amit Panghal, whose 'inadvertent' violation in 2012 has denied him a shot at the honours.
The anti-doping watchdog in the country also collected out-of-competition samples in disciplines like boxing and wrestling across the country.
AFI president Adille Sumariwalla warned athletes and coaches against using banned drugs by taking advantage of the COVID-19 and said the country could be suspended if the doping menace continues unabated.
The Athletics Integrity Unit said the doping charges against Bahraini 400m runner Salwa Eid Naser for missed tests and filing failures were dismissed by an independent tribunal.
Seema won a silver medal in the 2017 Commonwealth Championships and finished sixth in the women's 75kg competition at CWG 2018.
ABP is the monitoring of selected biological parameters over time that may indirectly reveal effects of doping on the body.
The Athletics Integrity Unit has provisionally suspended a former 800m World Champion for testing positive for a drug named 'LGD-4033', usually used to treat muscle-wasting conditions.
The Sports Ministry said that the BCCI does not have the right to conduct dope tests on players as it is not authorised by the government or the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA).
Sumariwalla also said the AFI has made it mandatory that for every state meet there will be dope testing including the ones for the juniors and the funding is being done by the centre.
The national doping watchdog also provisionally suspended seven other sportspersons last month for flunking dope tests.
Chepchirchir and her two little known compatriots, Samson Mungai Kagia and James Mwangi Wangari, will not be eligible for competition after the AIU charged them with violations.
Shehzad was banned in July after he tested positive for a banned substance during a random doping test in Pakistan's domestic tournament.
On May 15, the IWF provisionally suspended Chanu for four years after her 'A' sample was tested positive for a banned anabolic agent.
"The Afghan wicketkeeper-batsman had inadvertently ingested the prohibited substance, as a contaminant of a weight loss product he was taking, Hydroxycut," the ICC said in a statement.
Manpreet Kaur recently won a gold medal in the Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar.
West Indies cricketer Andre Russell has been handed a one-year ban for breaching anti-doping regulations. The Independent Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel took the decision after the player failed to reveal his whereabouts between March and September
Seven medallists of the London 2012 Olympics have been disqualified by the IOC after they tested positive in new doping tests.
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