Discus thrower Sandeep Kumari gets 4-year ban for flunking dope test

Discus
thrower Sandeep Kumari has been slapped with a four-year ban by WADA’s
Athletics Integrity Unit for flunking a dope test, nearly two years after her
sample was deemed clean by the NDTL.

The National
Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL) had failed to detect the banned substance—a
steroid—which was present in her blood sample, collected by NADA officials
during the National Inter-State Championships in June 2018 in Guwahati.

Kumari had
won the gold with a throw of 58.41m.

The World
Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) then decided to test the sample of Kumari at its
Montreal Laboratory in Canada and it returned positive for anabolic steroid
Metenolone in November 2018.

Kumari’s
results from June 26, 2018 to November 21, 2018 will now be annulled.