CWG-bound sprinter Dhanalakshmi and triple jumper Aishwarya Babu fail dope check
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Two Commonwealth Video games-bound athletes, sprinter S Dhanalakshmi and triple jumper Aishwarya Babu, have returned constructive for banned medicine, as dope disgrace struck Indian athletics just some days forward of the multi-sport occasion.
Each have been dominated out of the upcoming July 28 to August 8 Birmingham Video games and have been handed provisional suspensions.
The 24-year-old Dhanalakshmi returned constructive for a banned steroid in a dope check carried out overseas by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) of the World Athletics.
"Dhanalakshmi examined constructive in a dope check carried out by AIU. She is not going to go for Birmingham CWG," a high supply aware of the event informed PTI on circumstances of anonymity.
Dhanalakshmi was named within the CWG crew for 100m and the 4x100m relay crew together with the likes of Dutee Chand, Hima Das and Srabani Nanda.
She was additionally named within the Indian crew for the continued World Championships in Eugene, USA, however didn't make it to the showpiece, ostensibly as a consequence of visa issues.
Dhanalakshmi had recorded a private greatest time of twenty-two.89 seconds to win 200m gold on the Qosanov Memorial Athletics Meet on June 26. She had develop into solely the third Indian lady to run sub-23s after nationwide file holder Saraswati Saha (22.82s) and Hima Das (22.88s).
The 24-year-old Aishwarya's dope pattern, taken by the NADA officers through the Nationwide Inter-State Athletics Championships in Chennai final month, has additionally returned a constructive end result. She was named for the triple soar and lengthy soar occasions within the Indian athletics crew for the CWG.
"Triple jumper Aishwarya Babu's pattern, taken through the Nationwide Inter-State Championships, has returned constructive," the supply stated.
Aishwarya had smashed the triple soar nationwide file with a shocking effort of 14.14m to emerge the undisputed star of the Nationwide Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships (June 10-14) in Chennai.
She had produced a 6.73m effort in lengthy soar qualification spherical through the Chennai occasion. That was the second longest private greatest by an Indian lady lengthy jumper after legendary Anju Bobby George (6.83m).
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