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Close on the heels of the Narsingh Yadav scandal, more dope misery came India's way when Rio-bound shot putter Inderjeet Singh became the second athlete to test positive for a banned substance.
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TOI has exclusively learned that the 28-year-old was caught using a banned steroid in an out-of-competition test on June 22. Sources said it was a "fancy-sounding" drug though the name could not be ascertained.
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"The National Anti-Doping Agency sent a letter to the athletics federation this evening saying Inderjeet had failed a dope test," a source said. At 34, India was sending its largest-ever athletics contingent to the Olympics and this latest development has created huge doubts in the minds of the international dope-watchers.
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Gold-medallist in the Asian championships, Asian Grand Prix and the World University Games last year, Inderjeet was the first Indian athlete to qualify for Rio and the hope of breaching the 21m barrier on his Olympic debut, led him to a US-training stint in Pennsylvania. It is here, people close to the development, feel that he might have come in touch with performance enhancing substances.
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Inderjeet had been registered by NADA for its testing pool and he was "avoiding" getting tested by the agency. "We were doubting something was wrong when we came to know about him avoiding the NADA tests. Our worst fears have come true," sources said.
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