Olympic-bound race walker Goswami tests positive for Covid-19
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Race walkers Sandeep Kumar, Rahul Kumar and Priyanka Goswami are the first Indian athletes to qualify for the 20km event Oregon World Athletics Championships to be held from July 15 to 24 next year.. Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, April 13 : Olympic-bound athlete Priyanka Goswami was isolated on Tuesday at the Sports Authority of India training centre in Bengaluru after she tested positive for Covid-19.
The 24-year-old national record holder from Uttar Pradesh had qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in the women s 20 km race walk event in February during the National Race Walking Championships held in Ranchi, Jharkhand.
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2 Indian athletes test positive for doping: NADA chief
By IANS| Published: 14th March 2021 4:55 am IST
New Delhi, March 13 : Two leading athletes one of them an Asian Games medallist – have failed dope tests for performance enhancing drugs, said Navin Aggarwal, director general of the National Anti Doping Agency (NADA), here on Saturday.
Aggarwal didn’t reveal the names of the athletes whose B sample is yet to be tested, but said NADA had collected the urine and blood samples during the three Indian Grand Prix events in Patiala recently and the National Race Walking Championships in Ranchi.
Each sample taken is kept in two separate bottles A and B. And if the A sample turns positive then athletes have the right to have their B samples tested.
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Baljeet Kaur seemed to have picked up where she left off before the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted the athletics season last year. Having won silver in the junior 10,000 metres event at the 7th National Race Walking Championships in February last year, she was all set to participate in her first world-level event. But the World Junior Championships were postponed due to Covid-19. A year later, the 19-year-old has won two back-to-back silver medals in the U-20 10,000 metres race walk event, achieving the qualifying mark for the World Championships in the process.
Despite the disruption in training and the 2020 season being scrapped, Baljeet has also managed to cut over two minutes from her timing.