I had difficulty getting a prescription for morphine when I went to my medical centre a while ago. My regular GP was unavailable, and the young colleague of his that I saw was reluctant to prescribe the painkiller. He said he felt…
By PTI
NEW DELHI: Two-time Commonwealth Games champion Indian weightlifter Sanjita Chanu has been handed a four-year ban by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) for failing a dope test last year.
Sanjita had…
After I finished my Ph.D. in 2017, several newspaper reporters wrote about the job I’d accepted at the University of Virginia as an assistant professor of hip-hop.
“A.D. Carson just scored, arguably, the dopest job ever,” one…
By Express News Service
CHENNAI: Athletics has once again topped a list for all the wrong reasons. The National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) updated its list of athletes who have been banned after the Anti-Doping…
By PTI
NEW DELHI: Star gymnast Dipa Karmakar has been handed a 21-month ban for failing a dope test conducted by the International Testing Agency, contrary to claims made by Indian officials that her "suspension"…
Express News Service
CHENNAI: Five-time Paralympian Naresh Kumar Sharma has been asked to attend a hearing of the Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel of the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) on Friday in relation to a…
Express News Service
CHENNAI: Glasgow and Gold Coast Commonwealth Games gold medallist K Sanjita Chanu is among top sportspersons who have failed a dope test and has been provisionally suspended. The National…
By PTI
NEW DELHI: Neeraj Chopra continued to conjure up history-scripting performances, inspiring the likes of Avinash Sable and Murali Sreeshankar in their quest for global success, but the age-old dope menace…