India continues to maintain on to its doubtful distinction of being one in every of the main nations with dope offenders.
According to the just lately launched 2022 statistics by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), out of 3865 samples dealt with by National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA), 125 (3.2 per cent) examined positive — the most in any nation.
Russian (10186 samples) and American (6782) businesses have reported 85 and 84 positive outcomes respectively.
NADA’s figures additionally file the highest share of positive outcomes for 2000-plus samples examined by an company and joint highest for 1000-plus samples. The South African company has 2.9 per cent (2033 samples) and the Vietnamese company has 3.2 per cent (1105 samples) of positive exams.
As far as NADA’s figures are involved, some disciplines, together with athletics, boxing, wrestling and weightlifting, in which India has medalled in the Olympics have additionally contributed to this.
Wrestling has registered 6.3 per cent (18) positive outcomes from 285 samples. Other nations with a better share in wrestling are Egypt (7), Pakistan (16.7), Guatemala (25) and Tajikistan (25). Egypt has examined solely 43 samples, whereas the relaxation three have examined samples in single digits.
A look at the figures of the earlier years level to a disturbing pattern in India.
In 2019, NADA had examined 4004 samples with a file variety of positive outcomes (225), which got here to 5.6 per cent.
Even in the Covid-affected 2020 (1186 samples) and 2021 (1794), when NADA managed to deal with lower than 2000 samples a 12 months, India led with 4.6 per cent and a pair of.3 per cent positive cases respectively.
With the Paris Olympics round the nook, NADA would do properly to ramp up the variety of exams to curb the doping menace.
