India remains on the list of countries in the world where the highest number of doping cases have been reported and has come third in 2019 on the basis of cases of violation of anti-doping rules. According to the latest report of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), India has detected 152 cases (17 per cent of the world's total cases) of anti-doping rules violations in 2019.

The highest number of doping offenders were found in body building (57). Weightlifting is going to be the highest in the Olympic Games with 25 cases violating anti-doping rules.  This is followed by Athletics (20) and Wrestling (10). 4-4 such cases were found in boxing and judo. 4 cricketers also violated anti-doping rules in 2019.

India is behind only Russia (167) and Italy (157), while Brazil (78) is fourth and Iran (70) is 5th. Russia could not field its national team at the Tokyo Olympics due to non-compliance with international anti-doping rules and its players had joined the Russian Olympic Committee.

Cases have steadily increased: India was ranked fourth in cases of violation of anti-doping rules in 2018 and 7th in 2017. India reported 57 cases in 2017 and 107 in 2018. He was fourth after Russia (144), Italy (132) and France (114) in 2018. In that report, the highest number of sportspersons violating anti-doping rules were from weightlifting (22) followed by Athletics (16).

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