CAS overturned the clean chit given to the wrestler.
Indian wrestler Narsingh Yadav's chances of competing at the Olympic Games were dashed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Friday. Yadav, a bronze medallist in the 74kg category at last year's world championships, was handed the maximum four-year doping ban after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) won its appeal against his earlier exoneration.
Following the announcement of his ban, Yadav's sister appealed to the Prime Minister to intervene in the matter. "I appeal to Modi ji to support us and get this ban on Narsingh Yadav removed. He would have won gold surely," she told ANI.
Yadav was ousted from the Olympics and slapped with a four-year ban for flunking a dope test after CAS overturned the clean chit given to wrestler by National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA).
Narsingh's parents said that their son was a victim of conspiracy and urged the Prime Minister to revoke his ban. "I just got to know that my son got banned again. I don't why it is happening to my son. My son is innocent and he has not done anything wrong. NADA decided in favour of my son, I don't know why WADA is giving hardships to my son," Narsingh's mother Bhulna Devi told ANI.
"I have no words. I am shocked to hear the news. My son has been preparing for four years. Not getting to play in the Olympics, in spite of preparing, is equivalent to getting paralysed," Pancham Yadav, the wrestler's father said. "I appeal to PM Modi is to let my son play again," he added.
BB Sharan Singh, BJP MP and President of Wrestling Foundation of India, called the decision unfortunate. "Narsingh Yadav is not in a position to talk right now, he has been constantly crying," Singh told ANI. "It's unfortunate that the first player to qualify for Olympics is banned all of a sudden," he added.
A NADA panel had ruled earlier this month the wrestler was a victim of "sabotage", and cleared him to compete in Rio. The freestyle wrestler had claimed his supplements and water had been sabotaged and lodged a police complaint against a junior wrestler, accusing him of contaminating his food at the Sports Authority of India training centre in Sonepat.
WADA, however, filed an urgent application before CAS to challenge the decision of NADA India to exonerate Yadav.
Freestyle wrestling starts on Friday.
With agency inputs.
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