New Delhi: Indian sports, which has often been shamed due to its athletes using banned substances, suffered another moment of ignominy as freestyle wrestler Sumit Malik (125kg category) lost his place in the Tokyo-bound Indian contingent due to a failed dope test. The sample was taken during the Olympic qualifiers held in Sofia, Bulgaria, in early May.
Ironically, Malik, from Karor village in Haryana’s Rohtak district, had won his quota place for the Olympics at the Sofia event. It was a huge boost for Indian wrestling as several celebrated wrestlers had failed to qualify for the Tokyo Games.
OLY SPOT LOST
Methylhexanamine, a stimulant, found in blood sample of freestyle wrestler Sumit Malik (125kg)
Wrestling’s world body provisionally bans him for 6 months
Sumit now can’t go to Tokyo Games and India can’t field any wrestler in his category
The banned performance-enhancing substance found in his urine sam-ple is 5-methylhexan-2-amine (1,4dimethylpentylamine) – known as methylhexanamine – which qualifies in the category of a ‘specified’ substance. The sample was collected by the United World Wrestling (UWW), the sport’s global governing body, which subsequently exercised its legitimate right to provisionally suspend the athlete for six months till December 2021.
This means Sumit won’t be able to compete at the Tokyo Games. It has also ruined India’s chances of fielding a wrestler in the freestyle 125kg category. The country’s much-hyped wrestlers like Narsingh Yadav, Amit Dhankar, Sandeep Singh Mann and Jitendra failed to land India a quota place in the 74kg category. Sumit’s shocking dope failure has cost the country representation in his weight category.
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