According to the Global Doping report by World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Report for 2013, the test reports from 91 Indian athletes showed positive results and it is confirmed that they had used banned substances in that year. Russia has maximum number of dope offenders with 212 testing positive and Turkey stays second with 155 dope offenders. France came a close fourth with 90 dope cheats. The report compiled by the WADA based mainly on the information received from National Anti-Doping Organisations (NADOs).

If the four non-analytical Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRVs) are taken into account, India has 95 ADRVs, fourth in the WADA list behind Russia (225), Turkey (188) and France (108). Russia had 13 non-analytical ADRVs, while the corresponding figures for Turkey and France were 33 and 18 respectively.

Non-analytical ADRVs

It refer to cases that do not involve detection of a prohibited substance by a WADA-accredited laboratory but instances like failure to submit to a test, possession, use or trafficking of a prohibited substance following an investigation by athletes and support personnel.

Among the NADOs, India’s National Anti-Doping Agency recorded 93 adverse analytical findings — the third highest — out of 4274 samples it tested in 2013 but three were exonerated later by anti-doping disciplinary and appeal panels, leaving 90 cases of Anti-Doping Rule Violations.

WADA President Sir Craig Reedie said doping remains the biggest threat to integrity of sport.