Order reserved in athletes' doping case

New Delhi: Arguments were completed and the order reserved in the doping cases involving six top woman quarter-milers of the country during the hearing before a National Anti-Doping Disciplinary panel here on Friday.

The six athletes, Mandeep Kaur, Ashwini A. C., Sini Jose, Jauna Murmu, Tiana Mary Thomas and Priyanka Panwar, are facing charges of steroid abuse. They tested positive last May and June during in-competition and out-of-competition tests conducted by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

The athletes have pleaded that they consumed ginseng bought by the foreign coach, Yuriy Ogorodonik, from Guangzhou, China in November last year and that led to the ‘positive' tests.

The Hindu