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India has surpassed Kenya to apical the Athletics Integrity Unit's (AIU) database of ineligible persons owed to doping violations with 148 suspended way and tract athletes, which is 2 much than the African nation.
The latest updated database is for the play up to April 1 this year. Russia took the 3rd spot with 66 suspended athletes.
Prominent Indian athletes successful the database see women's 100m nationalist grounds holder Dutee Chand, who has been serving a four-year suspension since December 2022, mediate region runner Parvej Khan, whose six-year suspension volition tally till July 2030, and Tamil Nadu sprinter Sekar Dhanalakshmi who was suspended for 8 years successful 2025.
The database includes persons serving a play of ineligibility arsenic a effect of nationalist level cases and decisions.
It besides includes persons who person committed non-doping violations specified arsenic tampering, evading testing, trafficking, oregon missing whereabouts, which transportation the aforesaid penalties arsenic a doping offence.
The Athletics Integrity Unit is an autarkic anti-doping watchdog established by the World Athletics. It has jurisdiction implicit planetary level athletes and their enactment persons.
In bid to tackle the doping menace, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) has taken up strict measures, including tracking down those centres successful the state which are linked to the menace.
Asserting that trainers besides play a large relation successful doping of their wards, the AFI has besides asked each the coaches to registry with it. Unregistered coaches volition beryllium blacklisted, and their trainees volition beryllium deemed ineligible for nationalist awards.
After the 2024 Paris Olympics, the AFI has decentralised the nationalist camps. Currently, the AFI is lone conducting nationalist camps for relay teams.
All different elite athletes person chosen backstage organisations similar Reliance, JSW, Tatas oregon authorities departments similar Army, and Navy for training.
