India confronts another potential suspension of their national weightlifting body. The body was previously banned in 2004 succeeded by a second ban in 2006, since more than three lifters tested positive in one calendar year.

Male lifters Harbhajan Singh, Rajesh Kumar and female Bijaya Devi failed the anti-doping tests directed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). The three were an add-on to last month’s two lifters that also tested positive for anabolic steroids use.

According to Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWF) secretary Baldey Gulati, the three weightlifters screened positive for anabolic steroids use at a training camp for the Commonwealth championships.

Shailajah Pujari, a gold medalist at the 75kg women’s division at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and Vicky Batta, a 56kg weightlifter initially occupied the list of Indian weightlifters that tested positive for banned substances.

Last Thursday, Gulati told reporters that he was surprised to learn all those five weightlifters tested positive for some kind of anabolic steroids.

What is even more questionable is that all five athletes tested for the identical type of anabolic steroids in the similar quantum.

All contenders who tested positive requested their B samples to be examined. They have all refused consuming any sorts of anabolic steroids.

From Reuters India:

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Three more Indian weightlifters have tested positive for doping, taking the latest positive tests to five, and the national body is now facing another suspension.

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