New Delhi: World Anti-Doping Agency is expected to speak on India’s alarming doping numbers on Thursday with its president Witold Banka landing in New Delhi on Monday.
Banka met with National Anti-Doping Agency officials on Monday for “urgent and serious” discussions on protecting the “integrity of sport” in India.
“Today in Delhi, I visited the National Anti Doping Agency, India and the National Dope Testing Laboratory,” he wrote on social media.
“Urgent and serious discussions on the need to decisively strengthen anti-doping systems, confront persistent challenges, and ensure credible protection of the integrity of sport in India.”
According to a 10-year WADA global study, India was ranked second among countries with worst record of doping offences, only behind Russia and ahead of China.
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“Countries with the most positive tests reported against Minors were (in descending order) Russia, India, and China. Countries with the most sanctioned Minors were Russia, India, and China,” the WADA said in that report.
India also came on top of the list of highest number of dope violations for a third consecutive year with 260 adverse analytical findings, a positivity rate of 3.6 per cent.
India also topped Athletics Integrity Unit’s list of ineligible persons with doping violations earlier this year, accounting for 148 suspensions, two more than Kenya.
Recently, Sports minister Mansukh Mandaviya told in the Parliament that the Union government would engage agencies like the CBI to strengthen NADA’s intelligence and investigative infrastructure.
Mandaviya also pledged an aggressive crackdown of the doping menace as prominent names including women’s 100m national record holder Dutee Chand, middle distance runner Parvej Khan and sprinter Sekar Dhanalakshmi currently serve suspensions.