It's not just the coaches Indian sportspersons need to be wary of, the under-qualified medical personnel are also a threat.
On Monday, Ashwini Akkunji, India's golden girl, joined the list of dope offenders, taking the number of positive cases to eight.
‘Goli’ is a term commonly used in Indian athletics. One just needs to be within earshot of a familiar athlete or official, and the words ‘accha goli’, to celebrate an achievement, reach out loud and clear.
In a blatant violation of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) code, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI), in association with the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA), has screened athletes bound for the Asian Athletics Championships, beginning in Kobe, Japan, from July 7.
After lying low for few days , Mandeep Kaur, the 4x400m Asian and Commonwealth Games (CWG) gold medallist, has alleged that it was the coach’s fault.
Believe it or not, the banned drugs, similar to the ones India’s top quarter-miler Mandeep Kaur tested positive, are available over the counter in the Capital’s medical shops.
At a time when experts from the Eastern Bloc countries are under the scanner for their alleged role in administering performance-enhancing drugs to the country's top athletes, star track runner Ashwini Akkunji still has faith in Yuryi Ogorodnik, the controversial Ukrainian coach.
If the NADA has its way, soon athletes, and even coaches, returning from international meets or coming back from training abroad, will be searched for banned substances at the airport, like they are in other countries.
Suspecting food supplements as the reason behind her dope flunk, tainted quarter-miler Mandeep Kaur has asked the Athletics Federation of India's Anti-Doping Committee to test them during the hearing process.
The dope taint on India’s athletes spread further on Thursday as four more tested positive and a banned sprinter failed a second test.
HT Correspondent reports.
Asian and Commonwealth Games gold medallist quartermiler Mandeep Kaur and last year's Asian All-Star 400m hurdles gold medallist Jauna Murmu have been suspended for testing positive for banned substance on Wednesday.
Athletes at next year's London Olympics can blog and post comments on Twitter as long as it is not done for commercial purposes, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said. But any found posting x-rated content could be booted from the Games, it warned.
Two top 400m track and field female athletes have tested positive during an out-of-competition test, conducted by an international anti-doping agency, recently.
Gurmeet Singh on Saturday qualified for the 2012 London Olympics 20km race walking competition after finishing sixth in the 18th Dublin International Grand Prix in Ireland.
Tyson Gay's dream of a world championship re-match with Jamaican record holder Usain Bolt in the 100 metres ended on Friday when the American pulled out the semi-finals of the United States trials with a troublesome hip injury.