India's top triple jumper Aishwarya Babu has been banned by the National Anti-Doping Agency's (NADA) disciplinary panel for 4 years. She has time till March 6 to file an appeal against the ban.
The 25-year-athlete was dropped from the Birmingham Commonwealth Games in 2022 after testing positive for Ostarine, a steroid on the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) prohibited list.
She was tested during the National Inter-State Championships on June 13 and 14 last year in Chennai, where she had won Gold. Having been provisionally suspended in July last year, Babu has already served six months of her four-year ban.
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