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Dope-Tainted athletes, coaches qualify for exercise awards

Dope-Tainted athletes, coaches qualify for exercise awards
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New Delhi: In the main policy decision, the government has made athletes and coaches contaminated by this drug qualify for national sports awards, including the recommended major chand Khel Khel Khel Ratna and Arjuna award.
Such athletes and coaches must have completed their ban period.
This step will benefit people like former athletes and now including Amit Panghal (Boxing), Seema Antil (Discus Throw), Renjith Maheshway (Triple Jump) and Bahadur Singh (shot), among others.
However, people like pamhal and anxious will not be considered for this year’s award if their names have not been recommended by each of their federations and entrepreneurs to the award selection committee or athlete not yet nominated.
But the move opens the feasibility door for athletes with doping backgrounds to re-apply from the next edition and so on.
With the sports ministry it allows for self-application facilities for athletes and coaches because of the difficulties faced by them in getting recommendations from authority / person prescribed because of the Covid-19 pandemic, it will help Sportsperson directly send in their nomination to the future committee without must depend on the federation to forward their names.
Until last year, Dope’s violators did not meet the requirements to apply for each national award and the Ministry of June 2, 2020, circled had clearly mentioned this section.
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(athletes) must be eligible to be considered for awards after settlement of punishment / penalty / suspension / ban / prohibitions.
achievements during suspension / penalty will not be considered.
Sportsperson against whom the question is waiting / ongoing will not be considered,” The service said stated by the Ministry.
The ministry has also made a dope-tarttain coach eligible for the Dronacharya award.
“A coach is found to be encouraging the use of drugs / substances that are prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) based on samples collected by the National Anti-Doping Agency (Nada) …
must be eligible for the Dronacharya award after settlement of their punishment, “The ministry said.
The first medal and the only silver in India in the World Championship, the Panghal Flyweight Boxer application for Khel Ratna last year was rejected by the Committee because of his polluted past.
Panghal was nominated for Arjuna in the past three years but was not considered by the different selection committees because of violations of doping ‘accidentally’ 2012.
Likewise, the antil discus-thribontal, gold medalist in the world junior athletic championship in Santiago, has been positively tested for simulates in the year 2000 and then stripped from the OPE test medal as a junior.
“This is a great decision by the Ministry of Sports.
We have raised this problem in the past and I plan to file a pill after talking to dope players.
Because of this rule before, even those who were arrested in doping accidentally, were also without Sports awards.
I believe that this decision will motivate the athlete to provide the best to get honor and recognition, “said a leading lawyer of Saurabh Mishra.
Jhjhariah, Prasad in the Paralympic Medal Committee award, Javelin-Thrower Devendra Jhjharia, former Cricketer Venkatesh Prasad, former Boxer world champion L Sarita Devi, former shooter Anjali Bhagwat and former captain of the Cricket team Anjum Chopra, among others in this year’s award selection committee.
Retired Supreme Court Judges, Justice Mukundakum Sharma, has been appointed as Chair of the Committee.

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