Indian lifters test positive

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. Male lifters Harbhajan Singh and Rajesh Kumar and female Bijaya Devi were caught in WADA...

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.

Male lifters Harbhajan Singh and Rajesh Kumar and female Bijaya Devi were caught in WADA tests at a training camp for the Commonwealth championships, Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWF) secretary Baldev Gulati said.

"I'm dumbfounded," Gulati said.

"All of them have shown some sort of anabolic steroid. This shows something has happened in the last 20 days, just before the Commonwealth championships, (lifters) trying something, if this is correct."

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