NEW DELHI: Neeraj Chopra endured to conjure up history-scripting performances, inspiring the likes of Avinash Sable and Murali Sreesankar of their quest for world good fortune, however the age-old dope risk raised its unpleasant head once more and shamed the country on the world level.
At least six most sensible Indian athletes have been stuck for the use of banned medication and the run-up to the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, as same old, used to be marred via a chain of dope sure circumstances.
The mythical lengthy jumper Anju Bobby Georgeadditionally senior vice chairman of Athletics Federation of Indiadropped a bombshell, announcing that athletes who educated out of the country introduced again banned medication for distribution amongst a few of their colleagues.
The 24-year-old Chopra, the poster-boy of Indian athletics, endured his exploits after his ancient javelin throw gold within the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
He gained a silver within the World Championships in the United States in July to grow to be simplest the second one Indian after Anju — who gained a bronze within the 2003 Paris version — to win a medal on the showpiece.
In September, he changed into the Diamond League champion via profitable the Finals of the celebrated assembly sequence, including any other ‘first’ to his identify.
Chopra, alternatively, may no longer protect his Commonwealth Games gold at Birmingham because of the “minor” groin harm he sustained all over the World Championships.
It used to be any other eventful yr for Chopra however he may no longer breach the 90m mark. He got here agonizingly shut along with his 89.94m throw when he completed moment within the Stockholm leg of the celebrated Diamond League.
Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem did the unthinkable as he beat global champion Anderson Peters with a monster throw of 90.18m for the CWG gold, thereby changing into the second one Asian after Chao-Tsun Cheng of Chinese Taipei to go into the unique 90m membership.
In the absence of Chopra, it used to be left to steeplechaser Sable and lengthy jumper Sreeshankar to steer the Indian problem within the CWG the place the contest is nearly global stage in some occasions. They did admirably neatly via profitable a silver every in ancient feats.
Sreeshankar overlooked the gold via a whisker whilst Sable ended the hegemony of the Kenyans who’ve gained all 3 medals in males’s 3000m steeplechase tournament for the reason that 1998 CWG.
But probably the most outstanding used to be the 1-2 end via Eldhose Paul and Abdulla Aboobacker within the males’s triple bounce which helped India reach its second-best medal haul after the 2010 Delhi CWG with one gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze.
jumper Tejaswin Shankar who made it to the Indian CWG staff after a Delhi High Court order additionally gained a bronze.
Other medal winners have been Annu Rani (bronze in ladies’s javelin throw), Priyanka Goswami (silver in ladies’s 10,000m race stroll) and Sandeep Kumar (bronze in males’s 10,000m race stroll).
India additionally gained 3 medals within the U-20 World Championships in Colombia with quartermiler Rupal Chaudhary, a farmer’s daughter hailing from Meerut district in Uttar Pradesh, profitable two medals.
Even as India emerges as a pressure to reckon with at the world athletics scene, a chain of prime profile dope sure circumstances took the sheen off the spectacular efficiency at the box.
Kamalpreet Kaur, who had completed 6th within the ladies’s discus throw ultimate in Tokyo Olympics after a drastic development in her private ultimate final yr, examined sure for a steroid and the Athletics Integrity Unit passed her a three-year ban till March 2025.
This used to be adopted via Olympian javelin thrower Shiv Pal Singh being banned for 4 years until 2025 after he examined sure for the steroid Metandionone in October 2021.
Just prior to the World Championships and the CWG, got here the scoop of dope sure circumstances of most sensible sprinter Sekar Danalaxmi and Aishwarya Babu, who had created a triple bounce nationwide report all over the National Inter-State Championships in June.
Quarter-miler MV Jilna used to be first named within the CWG staff and used to be later quietly withdrawn after checking out sure for a banned drug.
Veteran quartermiler and Arjuna awardee MR Poovamma additionally joined the ‘Hall of Shame’ of dope-flunked athletes with the Anti-Doping Appeal Panel of the NADA handing her a two-year suspension for checking out sure for stimulant methylhexaneamine final yr.
Discus thrower Navjeet Kaur Dhillon used to be the newest most sensible athlete to be stuck within the dope web.
A couple of legends of athletics like Praveen Sobti, who performed the nature of ‘Bheema’ in blockbuster TV serial ‘Mahabharat’ serial and medal winner in each Asian Games and CWG, breathed his final within the yr long past via.
India’s ‘golden woman’ PT Usha, who set the observe on hearth on the nationwide and continental stage within the Nineteen Eighties but even so lacking an Olympic medal via a whisker in 1984, used to be elected unopposed as president of the Indian Olympic Association.
At least six most sensible Indian athletes have been stuck for the use of banned medication and the run-up to the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, as same old, used to be marred via a chain of dope sure circumstances.
The mythical lengthy jumper Anju Bobby Georgeadditionally senior vice chairman of Athletics Federation of Indiadropped a bombshell, announcing that athletes who educated out of the country introduced again banned medication for distribution amongst a few of their colleagues.
The 24-year-old Chopra, the poster-boy of Indian athletics, endured his exploits after his ancient javelin throw gold within the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
He gained a silver within the World Championships in the United States in July to grow to be simplest the second one Indian after Anju — who gained a bronze within the 2003 Paris version — to win a medal on the showpiece.
In September, he changed into the Diamond League champion via profitable the Finals of the celebrated assembly sequence, including any other ‘first’ to his identify.
Chopra, alternatively, may no longer protect his Commonwealth Games gold at Birmingham because of the “minor” groin harm he sustained all over the World Championships.
It used to be any other eventful yr for Chopra however he may no longer breach the 90m mark. He got here agonizingly shut along with his 89.94m throw when he completed moment within the Stockholm leg of the celebrated Diamond League.
Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem did the unthinkable as he beat global champion Anderson Peters with a monster throw of 90.18m for the CWG gold, thereby changing into the second one Asian after Chao-Tsun Cheng of Chinese Taipei to go into the unique 90m membership.
In the absence of Chopra, it used to be left to steeplechaser Sable and lengthy jumper Sreeshankar to steer the Indian problem within the CWG the place the contest is nearly global stage in some occasions. They did admirably neatly via profitable a silver every in ancient feats.
Sreeshankar overlooked the gold via a whisker whilst Sable ended the hegemony of the Kenyans who’ve gained all 3 medals in males’s 3000m steeplechase tournament for the reason that 1998 CWG.
But probably the most outstanding used to be the 1-2 end via Eldhose Paul and Abdulla Aboobacker within the males’s triple bounce which helped India reach its second-best medal haul after the 2010 Delhi CWG with one gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze.
jumper Tejaswin Shankar who made it to the Indian CWG staff after a Delhi High Court order additionally gained a bronze.
Other medal winners have been Annu Rani (bronze in ladies’s javelin throw), Priyanka Goswami (silver in ladies’s 10,000m race stroll) and Sandeep Kumar (bronze in males’s 10,000m race stroll).
India additionally gained 3 medals within the U-20 World Championships in Colombia with quartermiler Rupal Chaudhary, a farmer’s daughter hailing from Meerut district in Uttar Pradesh, profitable two medals.
Even as India emerges as a pressure to reckon with at the world athletics scene, a chain of prime profile dope sure circumstances took the sheen off the spectacular efficiency at the box.
Kamalpreet Kaur, who had completed 6th within the ladies’s discus throw ultimate in Tokyo Olympics after a drastic development in her private ultimate final yr, examined sure for a steroid and the Athletics Integrity Unit passed her a three-year ban till March 2025.
This used to be adopted via Olympian javelin thrower Shiv Pal Singh being banned for 4 years until 2025 after he examined sure for the steroid Metandionone in October 2021.
Just prior to the World Championships and the CWG, got here the scoop of dope sure circumstances of most sensible sprinter Sekar Danalaxmi and Aishwarya Babu, who had created a triple bounce nationwide report all over the National Inter-State Championships in June.
Quarter-miler MV Jilna used to be first named within the CWG staff and used to be later quietly withdrawn after checking out sure for a banned drug.
Veteran quartermiler and Arjuna awardee MR Poovamma additionally joined the ‘Hall of Shame’ of dope-flunked athletes with the Anti-Doping Appeal Panel of the NADA handing her a two-year suspension for checking out sure for stimulant methylhexaneamine final yr.
Discus thrower Navjeet Kaur Dhillon used to be the newest most sensible athlete to be stuck within the dope web.
A couple of legends of athletics like Praveen Sobti, who performed the nature of ‘Bheema’ in blockbuster TV serial ‘Mahabharat’ serial and medal winner in each Asian Games and CWG, breathed his final within the yr long past via.
India’s ‘golden woman’ PT Usha, who set the observe on hearth on the nationwide and continental stage within the Nineteen Eighties but even so lacking an Olympic medal via a whisker in 1984, used to be elected unopposed as president of the Indian Olympic Association.