Bajrang Punia refutes claim on video after provisional suspension

New Delhi: Bajrang Punia has been given a provisional suspension for refusing to provide his sample for dope test during the recent trials and the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) is upset that NADA has kept it “in the dark” on the development. ” and he plans to write anti-world. doping agency (WADA) on the matter. Bajrang was handed a provisional suspension by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) on April 23 and was asked to send his reply by May 7 to avoid further disciplinary action. The trials to select the men’s national team for the Olympic qualifiers were held in Sonipat on March 10 and Bajrang left the venue without providing his urine sample after losing his match. Reacting to his suspension, Bajrang Said that he never refused to give his sample to NADA officials. Bajrang wrote, “I want to clarify that I never refused to give my sample to NADA officials.

I requested him to first answer me as to what action he took on the expired kit brought to collect my sample and then to conduct my dope test.” On X. He further wrote, “My lawyer Vidush Singhania will reply to this letter. The Tokyo Games bronze medalist also posted a video in which he displayed “expired kits” being sent for sample collection and asked the official why such kits were brought. The video is from the time An officer collecting dope samples came to him to collect the samples. In the video, Bajrang said that he was lucky that he had a team that paid attention to the expiry date and if such kits reached him then innocent junior wrestlers What would have been done? He also alleged that former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh was using such kits to intimidate those women wrestlers who had the courage to come out openly against him. In the video, he was heard telling the official Went, “I’m not blaming you. This is the work of big crocodiles sitting above. “Money talks in these matters.”

If Bajrang fails to respond, he will be out of the race for Paris Olympic qualification. According to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Code, “refusal to submit sample collection following authorized notification in the applicable anti-doping rules , or failing without good reason, or otherwise avoiding sample collection is an anti-doping rule violation.” Meanwhile, WFI President Sanjay Singh expressed surprise that NADA did not inform him about the suspension. “It is really surprising that NADA did not inform us while suspending Bajrang,” Sanjay told PTI. I had a meeting with the NADA Director General and other officials on April 25 and this matter was not raised in that meeting.””’They keep communicating with us on matters like accommodation conditions, long list (for Paris Olympics) etc. We even discussed about the Federation Cup recently, where they sent officials to collect samples from the winners. “But they did not tell us about Bajrang Punia’s suspension. I called NADA officials this morning and they had no answer to my question. Now, I am planning to write to NADA and also inform WADA about this.” It was reported that Vinesh Phogat had also initially refused to give her sample after winning the women’s 50kg trials in Patiala. “Nobody told us whose samples were taken after the tests (in Sonipat and Patiala) and what came out of those samples.

Just imagine if Bajrang had come to compete in the Federation Cup. We would have given him permission because we had no clue. “He has been suspended,” the WFI chief said. Meanwhile, Bhupender Singh Bajwa, head of the dissolved ad-hoc panel, told PTI that he was also informed about Bajrang’s suspension. There is no information in this regard.”I have checked the mail. We do not have any such communication. We had received a mail on April 18 regarding the warning to Bajrang, but the communication of April 23 is not with us. I Don’t know which email ID they sent it to.” Bajwa said, the World Qualifier in Turkey from May 9 is the last chance for Indian wrestlers to get a quota for the Paris Olympics. Sujit Kalkal will represent India in the men’s freestyle 65kg category, the category in which Bajrang competes. If Sujit wins the quota, the WFI will elect him and other quota winners to represent India at the Paris Games starting on July 26. , may be asked to appear in a final test to decide. So far, four Indian women wrestlers – Vinesh Phogat (50 kg), Anand Panghal (53 kg), Anshu Malik (57 kg) and Reetika Hooda ( 76 kg) – has qualified for the Olympics.