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What about weightlifters Edwin Raju (56 kg) and Tejinder Singh (85 kg) test positive in dope test in Commonwealth Games
India have withdrawn women%u2019s discus thrower Seema Antil from the Asian Games in Doha after she tested positive for a banned substance during an out-of-competition test, a sports ministry official said.
It is learnt that the 28 year-old Pratima, a double gold medallist at the Manchester Commonwealth Games in 2002, returned the positive test during a pre-Olympic anti-dope campaign which began on July 30.
In April, another Indian woman weightlifter, 24 year-old 2002 Commonwealth Games bronze medallist S Sunaina, tested positive for nandrolone during the Asian Championships at Almaty, Kazakhstan, in April. She was stripped of the two bronze medals she won in the 53kg category and is currently serving a two-year ban.
Last year, Shailaja Pujari, who won three gold medals in the 75kg category at the Commonwealth Games, was banned for two years by the Indian Weightlifting Federation after she tested positive at a domestic meeting.
Weightlifters Satheesha Rai and Krishnan Madasamy tested positive during the Manchester Commonwealth Games in 2002.
At the Busan Asian Games middle distance runner Sunita Rani, who won a gold medal in the 1500 metres and a bronze in the 5000m, was disqualified after a banned substance was allegedly detected in her urine sample. But she was later given a clean chit because of procedural lapses in the testing of her samples and her medals were returned.
India also had to pull out its team from the Junior Asian Weightlifting Championship in 2003 after 24 lifters were found guilty of doping in the junior nationals in Chennai.
Kunjarani Devi, who finished fourth in the women's 48kg event at Athens, had also tested positive in a senior Asian competition in South Korea in 2001 and was banned for six months and stripped of the bronze medal she won there. She was among 34 lifters, 23 of them juniors, who were caught for doping in three national meets which came soon after seven lifters tested positive during the 2002 National Games.
One of the most experienced Indian athletes, discus thrower Neelam Jaswant Singh, has tested positive.
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Athens, Aug 19 (IANS) What was supposed to be a glorious Olympic Games has turned out to be a nightmare as the first-ever individual silver medal for India was followed by a first-ever positive dope test for an Indian at the Olympic Games.
