New Delhi: Two athletes, who’re in competition for the Olympic Games, have failed dope tests carried out at the Indian Grand Prix in Patiala final month, the National Anti Doping Agency’s Director General Navin Agarwal revealed on Saturday. It is known that one of many athletes is a excessive profile feminine quarter-miler, who has received a number of gold medals in the 4x400m relay occasion and was alleged to be part of the Tokyo-bound workforce. However, neither NADA nor the Athletics Federation of India have divulged any names.
“I can’t comment about the names but yes, we had collected samples during the Grand Prix in Patiala. There are a couple of positive cases but I can’t say anything beyond that,” Agarwal instructed PTI on Saturday “Since this is an Olympic year, our focus is solely the core Olympic probables, who will be tested regularly. This year we are not going to test anyone below senior national level,” he added.
The prohibited substance in query is stimulant (energy-booster) Methylhexan-2-amine which is in the World Anti-Doping Agency’s checklist printed in 2021.
As of now, the athlete in query has not been handed a provisional suspension however it’s a on condition that she and the opposite offender must seem earlier than NADA’s Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel (ADDP) and show that the banned substance was inadvertently taken.
The sanction for this offence is ban between two to 4 years however the athlete has an opportunity to hunt revocation of the suspension from Anti Doping Appeals Panel (ADAP), the upper physique of NADA.
