Just a day after Narsingh Yadav had got clear from the doping charges by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA), his hopes got a further boost to now participate in the Rio Olympics as now the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) backs the wrestler’s Rio bid.
His clean chit which is given by NADA had also been approved by three parties, which are International Olympic Committee (IOC), United World Wrestling (UWW), which is wrestling’s world body, and also the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
Narsingh Yadav
After Narsingh failed this test last week, the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) had further named Praveen Rana, who would be his replacement in his 74kg-category for the Olympics. But now WFI is confident enough that none of these three organisations will further block Narsingh’s Rio dream, and especially after getting IOA’s nod.
The IOC had left it to the national Olympic committees to make a decision on replacing the athletes, which means the responsibility falls on the IOA’s lap.
WFI secretary Vinod Tomar said that, they have received IOA’s approval on Tuesday to send Yadav for the Olympics.
“As for the UWW, we are also awaiting their formal approval and are also hopeful of getting it by Wednesday. We have sent them an email on Monday evening, informing them about the entire situation. They will go through it thoroughly and we should hear something back by Wednesday,” Tomar added.
The final call would be from WADA, which can further appeal against NADA’s all-clear signal to Yadav. On Tuesday, WADA has said they have requested the case file from the NADA and will “review the case”.
However, Tomar seemed to be confident that WADA will also back NADA’s verdict.
