Commonwealth Games 2010: India faces embarrassment
Earlier this morning, the President of the Commonwealth Games Federation Mike Fennell announced that an Indian athlete has failed a dope test. The name, s*x and age of the athlete were not disclosed by the President as he said that the athlete and the team
have been informed about the results of the test. Fennell added that the name will be revealed once the results are confirmed.
After the disqualification of two Nigerian athletes, Samuel and Osayomi, the host nation has to face a huge deal of embarrassment since an Indian athlete has tested positive for the banned substance Nandrolone. The Commonwealth Games officials announced
this third anti-doping violation on Wednesday. This time round, the athlete found guilty of consuming the banned chemical was 20-year-old Rani Yadav from India who finished the women’s 20 km walk in the sixth position.
The spokesman of the Commonwealth Games Federation was quoted as saying, “Ms. Yadav has been provisionally suspended from the Games.”
The official also announced that the athlete will have to attend the hearing on Wednesday evening.
The most humiliating part is that the athlete is from the host nation. Resenting the incident, the secretary general of the Organizing Committee, Lalit Bhanot said, “It is unfortunate. We try our level best to obey the regulations.” Bhanot went on to say
that, “Since we are the hosts we took precautions but unfortunately this thing has happened.”
Before Rani, Osayomi and Samuel of Nigeria were disqualified from the Games since the two athletes had tested positive for the banned stimulant methylhexaneamine. Samuel was the sixth place finisher in the men’s 110 metre hurdle event, while Osayomi won
the gold medal in the women’s 100 metre event after Sally Pearson of Australia was disqualified. Later on Tuesday, it was announced that Osayomi’s B-sample also tested positive for the banned chemical and thus was stripped of the short lived gold medal.
The President of the Commonwealth Games Federation announced that so far, 1300 athletes have been tested by the anti-doping officials. In an interview, Fennell was reported as saying, “Everyone could concede that three out of 1300 is not a bad record of
those two have been concluded successfully and they were considered by many not to be as serious as they were stimulants.”
Fennel went on to say, “It is better, of course, if there are no cases.”
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