Lone runner competes in 100m race after anti-doping sting in India

An Indian athletics competition ended in farce when just one sprinter competed in the 100m final and another athlete continued running beyond the finishing line, chased by national anti-doping officers.

Several winners also skipped the medal ceremony fearing being asked to give samples during the Delhi State Athletics Championship, the Indian Express newspaper reported.

Officials told AFP that the National Anti-Doping Agency (Nada) arrived to conduct tests at the event on Tuesday, resulting in the number of participants falling by half on Wednesday, the third and final day of the competition.

The anti-doping visit came a day after a video shared on social media appeared to show a washroom in the capital’s Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium littered with syringes and packets of the performance-enhancing drug Erythropoietin (EPO).

Read the full article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/athletics/2023/09/28/delhi-doping-scandal-100m-race-epo-syringes-toilets/

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