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Gomathi gets four-year ban

A little over a year after she caught the imagination of fans of sport in India with a gold-medal winning run in the Asian Athletics Championships, Marimuthu Gomathi has been…

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WADA serves a shocker, suspends NDTL for six months for non-compliance

The worst fears of India’s anti-doping community came true in the dark night intervening Thursday and Friday. World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) suspended its accreditation of the National Dope Testing Laboratory…

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NDTL reports massive spike in dope positives (AAFs) in 2019

There is a massive spike in the positives reported by the National Dope Testing Laboratory in 2019. In the first five months of this year, the laboratory found 189 positives…

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NDTL does not come out smelling of roses: Gomathi case

The National Dope Control Laboratory (NDTL) has not come out smelling of roses, being slack in reporting results of testing on urine samples of Indian athletes heading to compete in…

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Doping is back in Indian weightlifting

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