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New Delhi:<\/strong> The National Anti-Doping Agency imposed a four-year suspension on Bajrang Punia for not submitting his sample for a doping test on March 10, during the national team selection trials.<\/p>\n Initially, NADA suspended the Tokyo Games bronze medalist wrestler on April 23, which was followed by a suspension from the World Governing body UWW.<\/p>\n Bajrang appealed against the provisional suspension, leading to its revocation by NADA\u2019s Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel (ADDP) on May 31, pending the issuance of a charge notice.<\/p>\n Subsequently, NADA served the notice to Bajrang on June 23.<\/p>\n Bajrang, who had joined the Congress with fellow wrestler Vinesh Phogat and took charge of the All India Kisan Congress, contested the charge on July 11 through a written submission, after which hearings took place on September 20 and October 4.<\/p>\n The ADDP ruled that the athlete is subject to sanctions under Article 10.3.1 and is ineligible for four years.<\/p>\n This suspension bars Bajrang from returning to competitive wrestling or seeking a coaching position abroad, should he wish to.<\/p>\n The panel determined that the four-year ineligibility period would begin from the date the notification was issued, i.e., April 23, 2024.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] New Delhi: The National Anti-Doping Agency imposed a four-year suspension on Bajrang Punia for not submitting his sample for a doping test on March 10, during the national team selection trials. Initially, NADA suspended the Tokyo Games bronze medalist wrestler on April 23, which was followed by a suspension from the World Governing body […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/download-58.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51766,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51764\/revisions\/51766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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