CHENNAI: Commonwealth Games bronze-winning shooter Ravi Kumar has been handed a two-year ban for failing a dope test back at an event in June. This newspaper had earlier reported that Ravi’s samples, collected at the KSS Memorial Shooting Championships in June, had tested positive for beta-blockers.
Ravi had stated that the test was due to medicine that he had taken for migraine. However, the National Anti-Doping Agency’s Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel rejected this argument and handed him a ban.