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WADA v Narsingh Yadav - Who's to Blame?

 (photo credits: PTI Photo) After contradictory reports and statements were made in the media, the saga of Narsingh Yadav gains some clarity with the publication of the CAS decision overturning the decision of the Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel (ADDP) of the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA)...

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Laishram Sarita Devi's Lasting Impact on Indian Sports Law

* Indian boxer Laishram Sarita Devi recently made the news when she failed to make it past the second round of the Women’s World Boxing Championships held in Astana, Kazakhstan in May along with Indian boxing star M C Mary Kom, thereby failing to qualify for the Rio Olympics.1 However,...

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The Curious Case of Dutee Chand

Earlier this week, Indian sprinter Dutee Chand qualified for the Rio Olympics in the women’s 100m event, but the journey hasn’t been easy.  In 2014, she underwent a routine doping test in which it was found that she had unusually high levels of testosterone. Testosterone doping was common...

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What We Can Learn from the Orders Passed by the BCCI Ombudsman to Date

Conflict of interest has always been a fact that Indian cricket has lived with, with selectors running coaching academies and being associated with IPL franchises. In particular, there was considerable uneasiness with Mr. N Srinivasan’s simultaneously being President of the BCCI and the CEO of India Cements, which owned Chennai Super Kings. However, there were no official move to remedy this situation (in...

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Everything you need to know about Sushil Kumar's Rio Olympics bid

(this post first appeared in a modified form on the Ringside View) The 66kg weight category for freestyle wrestling, which was present in both the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics, has been removed for the upcoming 2016 Rio Olympics. This has made life difficult for Sushil Kumar, who has competed for most of his career in the 66kg category, winning Olympic medals in both Beijing...

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