India’s set to improve in doping violators’ list: NADA

TIL Desk Sports/ India’s embarrassingly high ranking in the global doping violators’ list is expected to become more “respectable”, the National Anti-Doping Agency claimed. Asserting that it has successfully tightened its monitoring system. In a statement issued here, NADA said in the year gone by it conducted 151 tests.

“During the year 2016 NADA tightened the monitoring system on top level athletes and a total of 151 tests were conducted in the Registered Testing Pool (RTP), the global list of world level athletes maintained by WADA, which was more than the number of such tests carried out in earlier years (148 tests in RTP done during 2015),” the NADA stated.

“During the domestic meets the National Anti-Doping Agency decided to conduct tests in all recognised national level events for seniors in disciplines where doping was prevalent. “However, the focus has been that of targeted testing of high performers rather than underachievers, and also to avoid repeated testing of individual athletes over short periods,” it added. NADA said it has asked national federations to provide their annual calendars well in advance.