NEW DELHI/BENGALURU: Doping threats has come back to hang around in Indian weightlifting. In an awful development, top woman weightlifter and two-time Commonwealth Games champion, Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu, has failed in a dope test. Her sample has tested positive for anabolic steroid testosterone, consequentially she gets immediate provisional suspension by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) on Thursday.

Sanjita is only the second woman weightlifter after Kunjarani Devi to win gold in two different seasons of the CWG (Glasgow 2014 and Gold Coast 2018). This is a possibility that there is a the risk of losing her Gold Coast CWG gold in the women’s 53kg category.

 “IWF reports that the sample of Sanjita Chanu Khumukcham has returned an adverse analytical finding for testosterone (S1.1 anabolic agents). As a consequence, the athlete is provisionally suspended in view of a potential anti-doping rule violation,” the IWF issued a statement.

Stunned with the news, Sanjita is now expecting to come out clean from the doping disgrace.

 “I have only taken supplements provided by the Federation and my samples (both urine and blood) have been tested many times but it was always negative,” Sanjita Chanu told TOIin an interview on Thursday.

“Before I left for the Worlds I gave my sample and the NADA/WADA team took my sample again in Patiala after we returned from USA. So I’m puzzled how this sample, which was given in between these two tests turned positive?” she wondered. “If the B sample is also positive, then I’m sure something has happened. Either, they tested the wrong sample or someone spiked my sample. We all took the same supplements and how come only my sample returned a positive test. It can’t happen that away,” Chanu added as quoted by TOI.

Now let see how she face doping slur .