Gill slams dope tainted athletes

Sports Minister M S Gill today slammed dope flunked athletes who have caused a major embarrassment to the country barely a month before the Commonwealth Games saying that India does not want “dope tainted” medals.

“We don’t want dope tainted medals. We want them with clean means. Law will take its own course on the penalty (of dope flunked athletes). WADA has appreciated our work on dope testing,” he told reporters here.

Eighteen athletes have been caught for using banned substances in the past few days under NADA tests.

The ‘B’ samples of the six wrestlers today turned out to be positive for stimulant methylhexanamine,which was added as a banned substance only this year by World Anti-Doping Agency.