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My career all but over if ban not reviewed: Narsingh
NEW DELHI: Dope-tainted Narsingh Yadav on Monday admitted that his career would be over if the four-year ban imposed on him by the Court of Arbitration for Sports
NEW DELHI: Dope-tainted Narsingh Yadav on Monday admitted that his career would be over if the four-year ban imposed on him by the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) is not reviewed and said that the country should take up his case as India lost out on an Olympic medal in 74kg category.
Narsingh was debarred from representing India at the Rio Games in 74kg freestyle wrestling event after he was slapped with a four-year ban by CAS for flunking a dope test following WADA’s challenge to the clean chit given to him by NADA.
“My career will be over. In case, my ban is not reviewed, it would be all over for me,” Narsingh said on Monday. “But it is not just me who has been defamed, this ban on me is a blot on the entire nation’s reputation. If my ban is not reviewed, an innocent person would be tainted for life, let alone career being over,” a demoralised Narsingh added.
The 27-year-old said had he been allowed to compete, India would have definitely won another medal from the Rio Games. “India has definitely lost out on a medal in 74kg category because one of the two guys who has bagged a bronze in the Rio (Soner Demirtas of Turkey), I had defeated him during the World Championship at Las Vegas last year,” said Narsingh.
Narsingh said his case has got even more complicated with his “own people” trying to hatch a conspiracy. “I have got to know that some people in India had told WADA that I had been cleared under political pressure and my case should be reviewed.”
On how would he prove his innocence, considering that the Sonepat police had so far not acted on Narsingh’s complaint of a sabotage carried out by Jithesh (a junior wrestler and a member of Sushil Kumar’s entourage) by mixing his energy drinks with prohibited substance on either June 23 or 24, the wrestler said he might approach the Prime Minister.
DOPING BY ORAL INGESTION, SAYS CAS
While delivering its judgement, the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s (CAS) ad-hoc division punched holes in Narsingh’s sabotage theory while awarding the four-year ban.
In its reports, CAS’s ad-hoc division accepted WADA’s claim that Narsingh’s positive test was a result of oral ingestion.
