Rio de Janeiro: Indian sprinter Dharambir Singh has faled a dope
test and was stopped from boarding a flight to Rio de Janeiro for the Olympics
on Tuesday.
The 27-year-old was the first Indian male sprinter to qualify for the
Olympics in the past 36 years, and was scheduled to participate in the
200-metre event in the games.
Singh is the third Indian athlete in
the past two weeks to fail a test conducted by the National Anti-Doping Agency,
after wrestler Narsingh Yadav and shot putter Inderjeet Singh, who both failed
two successive dope tests. However, Yadav was later cleared of any
wrongdoing by NADA, who said his test was sabotaged.
Dharambir, who became the first
Indian athlete in 36 to qualify for the 200m sprint, may possibly face a life
ban if proven guilty as this was his second offence.
The 2016 Rio Olympics is the 31st
edition of the modern Olympic Games. Rio will become the first South American
city to host the Summer Olympics. This will be the first games to be held in a
Portuguese-speaking country, the first to be held entirely during the host
country’s winter season. The Rio Olympics will take place from August 5 to
August 21. A total of 11,239 athletes from 207 nations will compete in the
games.
The Indian Olympic Association (IOA)
is going to send the nation's largest ever delegation (thus far 119 athletes;
36 larger than their previous record of 83 athletes in 2012 London Olympics in
Summer Olympics history.
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