The top Indian athletes are out of the Registered Testing Pool of the International Association of Athletics Federations. Instead, we have two lesser-known athletes, javelin thrower Rajender Singh Dalvir and female long jumper Renubala Mahanta, as the only representatives from India in the IAAF RTP, effective from last month. Seven Indian athletes with Rajender Singh were part of the IAAF RTP since October last year. The other six were Vikas Gowda (discus), Kashinath Naik (javelin), Saurabh Vij (shot put), Mandeep Kaur and Jauna Murmu (400m) and Krishna Poonia (discus).
Female shot putter Manpreet Kaur was part of the list for a brief period in October-December last year. The larger existence of the Indians in the list following the success of the athletes in the Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games last year, followed by the ‘positive' tests returned by two of the RTP athletes, Mandeep Kaur and Jauna Murmu, last June, might have apparently set the stage for the IAAF to stiffen its grip over the ‘alarming' Indian situation. But that has not happened. Instead the IAAF seems to have scaled down its ‘anti-doping attention' towards Indian athletes.
With the National Anti-Doping Agency yet to have any meaningful ‘whereabouts' programme, this is a big setback for anti-doping in India. A ‘whereabouts' programme helps an anti-doping agency maintain track of athletes round the year for surprise tests at training venues, homes and other places. Rajender Singh, 22, threw a personal best 75.74m while winning the javelin title at the Open National in Kolkata last month. He had got into the limelight and the RTP in 2010 by coming second in the inter-State meet at Patiala with the then PB of 75.26.
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Female shot putter Manpreet Kaur was part of the list for a brief period in October-December last year. The larger existence of the Indians in the list following the success of the athletes in the Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games last year, followed by the ‘positive' tests returned by two of the RTP athletes, Mandeep Kaur and Jauna Murmu, last June, might have apparently set the stage for the IAAF to stiffen its grip over the ‘alarming' Indian situation. But that has not happened. Instead the IAAF seems to have scaled down its ‘anti-doping attention' towards Indian athletes.
With the National Anti-Doping Agency yet to have any meaningful ‘whereabouts' programme, this is a big setback for anti-doping in India. A ‘whereabouts' programme helps an anti-doping agency maintain track of athletes round the year for surprise tests at training venues, homes and other places. Rajender Singh, 22, threw a personal best 75.74m while winning the javelin title at the Open National in Kolkata last month. He had got into the limelight and the RTP in 2010 by coming second in the inter-State meet at Patiala with the then PB of 75.26.
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