JOIN USFormer national champion hammer thrower Harvinder Singh Dagar has been suspended for eight years by the National Anti Doping Disciplinary Panel (NADDP) following a second anti-doping rule violation.
Both A and B samples of Dagar, taken during a reinstatement test, found the presence of norandrosterone. The hearing of Dagar, who is a former Junior Asian Champion, having won in Hanoi in 2010, was done by a three-member panel comprising chairman Jasmeet Singh, Dr AK Jain and hockey Olympian Ashok Kumar.
Dagar was provisionally suspended by NADA on June 3 last year.
The UP athlete was earlier handed a two-year suspension in 2012 when his sample from the Federation Cup in Patiala, where he had won gold, tested positive for a combination of stanozolol and methandienone.
In the current case, the 23-year-old contested that the prohibited substance had entered into his system because of consumption of red meat and high protein intake. He also pleaded that the specific gravity of the urine sample (which should be 1.005) was measured with a lab stick at the time of sample collection by doping control officer instead of a refractometer as recommended by International Standard for Testing.
DH News Service