Vinesh Phogat allegedly missed the doping test organised by the National Anti-Doping Agency on September 9 at her house in Kharkhoda village in Sonepat. The former wrestler entered politics after her heartbreaking Paris Olympics 2024 campaign and is contesting the Haryana Assembly election.
Bajrang Punia was provisionally suspended last month for refusing to provide his urine sample to the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) during the selection trials in Sonipat, Haryana on March 10.
The National Anti Doping Agency (NADA) had suspended India's Olympic medallist Bajrang Punia on April 23 and the United World Wrestling had also taken a similar action against the India wrestler.
Indian Olympic medallist Bajrang Punia has been provisionally suspended by the National Anti-Doping Agency indefinitely after failure to provide his urine sample in time. Punia issued a statement regarding the same while alleging that the agency brought an expired kit to take the sample.
According to the report, nine track and field athletes and seven weightlifters from the National Games 2023 are among the guilty athletes and the majority of them have been handed provisional suspension by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) on Friday.
Hima Das will face a maximum ban of two years but that can be reduced to a year depending upon the degree of her fault. Das has already withdrawn from the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China owing to an injury.
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.
It is understood that one of the athletes is a high-profile female quarter-miler, who has won multiple gold medals in the 4x400m relay event.
The anti-doping watchdog in the country also collected out-of-competition samples in disciplines like boxing and wrestling across the country.
A limited-over leg spinner and an all-format wicketkeeper-batsman have been added to nation's anti-doping watchdog's revised list of Registered Testing Pool (RTP), reports Times of India.
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 National Anti-Doping Agency's Disciplinary Panel (ADDP) has exonerated junior judoka Jitesh Dagar of the charge that he evaded a dope test during a selection trial last year after NADA's Dope Control Officer failed to produce any clinching evidence against him.
NADA is targeting a collection of at least 50 samples during the 2020 edition of the Indian Premier League in the UAE.
The National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA), along with UAE, are set to conduct the dope-testing process jointly during the IPL.
The app aims to create a bridge between athletes and the NADA by providing easily accessible information on various aspects of sport
The other players to have received the notice include Cheteshwar Pujara and Deepti Sharma, who are among the five cricketers in the 110 strong National Registered Testing Pool (NRTP).
The Arjuna award-winning Olympian is among the most accomplished names in Indian boxing and has also been the government observer for the sport between 2017 and 2019.
NADA Director General Navin Agarwal, however, said that his organisation will be able to conduct enough number of tests on athletes who have qualified for the Olympics.
In a "landmark" decision by the Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel of the NADA, Haryana's Amit Dahiya has been banned for four years for evading dope sample collection by sending a proxy during the National Javelin Throw Open Championships last year.
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