If the field of participants is significantly reduced, the doping control officer will be in the stadium. Image: picture alliance/dpa
At the track and field championships, only one sprinter competes in the 100 meters. In the obstacle race, the winner runs further to the finish line to escape the doping controller. Evidence of possible reasons for the escape can be found in the garbage.
The presence of doping controllers has significantly reduced the field of participants at the national track and field championships in the Indian state of Delhi. As the “Indian Express” reports, only Lalit Kumar competed in the men’s 100-meter sprint final. “The other seven canceled due to cramps or strains,” Kumar is quoted as saying. “I was happy to compete against the best athletes, but no one came. Everyone was afraid of doping tests.”
The winner of the junior women’s steeplechase ran through the finish line to escape the doping controller, an eyewitness reported. After word got out that inspectors were present, around half of the participants stayed away from the competitions. Only three sprinters showed up for the final of the U-20 juniors over 100 meters, and only one boy took part in the hammer throw competition for the under-16s.
On Tuesday, packaging waste containing the drug erythropoietin (EPO) was found in the washrooms of the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. According to a quoted sports doctor, the drug is easily available in pharmacies for Indian athletes. Indian sport has been successful in international competitions like never before in recent times. Olympic javelin throw champion Neeraj Chopra became world champion in Budapest in August.
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At the Asian Games in Hangzhou, where there are no traceable anti-doping qualifications for many participants, Indian athletes had won 22 medals by midday on Wednesday German time. The Athletics Integrity Unit, which is commissioned by the international athletics federation World Athletics to sanction doping fraud, has 87 banned Indian athletes as of September 1st.
