Federation Cup silver-winning shotput player Naveen fails in dope test, 4-year ban; Dream of playing Olympic is also broken

Game desk. Indian shotput player Naveen Chikara’s dream of playing in the Olympics is broken. They have failed the out-of-competition dope test. Naveen has been banned for 4 years by the World Athletics Integrity Unit. This ban will be considered from 27 July 2018, as his sample was also taken for the test. At the same time, Albert Rope, a Kenyan runner and silver winner in the Asian Games, has also failed the dope test. They are banned for 2 years.

2018 was a great one for Naveen. This year he also won the silver medal in the Federation Cup. While he was the runnerup in the Inter State Championship. In the same year, Naveen was placed in the out-of-competition testing of the Testing Authority of the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) of India in Patiala.

Naveen had taken the banned GHRP-6 drug In
October, his blood sample was sent to a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accredited laboratory in Montreal, Canada, which turned out to be positive. He was then banned indefinitely. Naveen then admitted that he did not know about the banned GHRP-6 drug, which he had mistakenly taken. After this, his B sample was also taken. After this, his ban was reduced to 4 years.

Russia’s 2 Olympic Gold Medalists have been accused
of doping and taking banned drugs on 4 players, including two Russian Olympic champions. These include 2 gold medalists, Andrei Silnov, high jump champion in Beijing Olympic 2008, and Natalia Antyukh, champion of 400m hurdles in London Olympics 2012.