{"id":280,"date":"2011-10-14T05:39:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T05:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=280"},"modified":"2011-10-14T05:39:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T05:39:53","slug":"doping-ioa-demands-for-stringent-action-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Doping: IOA demands for stringent action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi: <\/strong>Indian Olympic Association (IOA) today expressed grave  concern over the reports of 10 kabbadi players and three athletes who  have tested positive and asked the federations concerned to take strict  action against the guilty sportspersons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should have a zero tolerance for those who test positive  and there is no question of showing leniency to those sportspersons who  bring shame to the country,&#8221; IOA Acting President Vijay Kumar Malhotra  said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo more excuses from any quarter will be  entertained\u00a0 because doping\u00a0 is just\u00a0 not acceptable\u201d Prof Malhotra said  adding,\u00a0 \u201cIOA will not spare any guilty persons involved in this  disgraceful activity but before that it will like to know the full  facts.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want sports to be drug free. India is a party to the  International Charter on this issue,\u201d he said but admitted that this  was not the first time that sports has been disgraced in India but  wanted to know what the officials responsible for training and coaching  of the sports persons doing in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>He said what has  shocked him that these sportspersons have flunked the dope test barely  couple of months after some top sports persons were caught and were  punished. \u201cIt seems these players had not learnt any lesson or were led  to a garden path by some misguided officials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prof Malhotra  said there seems to be a big scam behind this drug scandal in which not  only the athletes but other officials are also involved. <\/p>\n<p> He  reiterated his demand for a comprehensive inquiry to expose the nexus  between the medicine (drug) suppliers, coaches, doctors, other officials  along with involved sportspersons.<\/p>\n<p>He said while IOA\u00a0 is not  taking\u00a0 the issue lightly, nor will it sweep the matter under carpet.  &#8220;We demand Sports Authority of India (SAI) to come out with full facts  on this sordid issue and what action it was proposing against its own  officials who are responsible for running the camps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prof  Malhotra also asked the National Anti Doping Agency (NADA) to take  action against the guilty persons quickly. \u201cThere is no use of keeping  the matters pending for months together which sends wrong signals to  guilty sports persons and officials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Indian Olympic Association (IOA) today expressed grave concern over the reports of 10 kabbadi players and three athletes who have tested positive and asked the federations concerned to take strict action against the guilty sportspersons. \u201cWe should have a zero tolerance for those who test positive and there is no question of showing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-isn-front-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Doping: IOA demands for stringent action - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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