NEW DELHI: Two prominent weightlifters, including a national champion who had stunned multiple Commonwealth Games medallist Vikas Thakur in a domestic meet, are staring at a maximum eight-year ban each from competitions after their urine samples tested positive for a cocktail of banned substances for the second time in their respective careers
Services lifter Veerender Singh (men’s 102kg), who had created ripples back in 2019 after upsetting three-time CWG medallist and Commonwealth Championships winner Thakur at the Visakhapatnam Nationals en route his men’s 96kg gold, and Hansraj (men’s 109kg), also a medallist at the senior Nationals, have both been provisionally suspended by the National Anti-Doping Agency (Nada) after their urine samples revealed traces of prohibited drugs commonly used to increase muscle mass and testosterone level.
