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The Sports Ministry’s Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) has approved Commonwealth Games medallist Tejaswin Shankar’s request for financial assistance towards participation in continental tour events in Europe. Tejaswin wants to compete … Read More
It does not pay to avoid dope-testers. Invariably, the long arm of the anti-doping apparatus will get to the athlete. It also does not pay to avoid notices from relevant … Read More
Pakistan’s top javelin thrower, Arshad Nadeem, has flown to the United Kingdom to undergo knee surgery in a bid to be fit before the Paris Olympics. Nadeem, who had claimed … Read More
Reigning world 100- and 200-meter champion Noah Lyles served notice to Paris Olympic sprinters and Marco Arop ran the second-fastest indoor 1,000 ever on Sunday at the Boston Grand Prix. … Read More
Triple jumper A.B. Arun’s National Games gold, which he stunningly won with a personal best effort of 16.79m in Goa in November, has been taken away. The 25-year-old had broken … Read More
Seventy-eight top-level Spanish athletes on Wednesday expressed their “firm and absolute rejection of the latest actions” of the Spanish anti-doping agency (CELAD), whose head was sacked last month following accusations … Read More
Spanish long distance runner Mohamed Katir has been provisionally suspended by World Athletics for three doping test whereabouts infringements, the athlete said in a statement Wednesday. The 25-year-old won silver … Read More
Does the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) conduct out-of-competition testing on a no-notice basis as it should be? For a long time, there have been doubts about this aspect of NADA … Read More
India’s Olympic and world champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra has been honoured with a plaque at the famous Ice Palace at Jungfraujoch, known as the ‘Top of Europe’, in Switzerland. … Read More
Sarah Chepchirchir became the latest Kenyan athlete to be banned for doping, receiving an eight-year suspension on Wednesday after she tested positive for a banned substance for the second time. … Read More
