An uptick in the number of offenders has taken India into the top three of the world’s biggest doping violators in a WADA report detailing the transgressions for the year 2019 with bodybuilding, weightlifting, and athletics contributing majorly to the country’s embarrassing record.
In the latest report published by the World Anti-Doping Agency, 152 (17 percent of the world total) Anti-doping Rule Violations (ADRVs) were reported in India in 2019, leaving it third in the list with the maximum dope offenders coming from bodybuilding (57).
Among Olympic sports, weightlifting leads the way with 25 ADRVs, followed by athletics (20) and wrestling (10). Boxing and judo reported four ADRVs each. Four cricketers were also found to have committed ADRVs in 2019.
A lightweight in global sport, India is only behind Russia (167) and Italy (157), while Brazil (78) is fourth and Iran (70) fifth.
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