New Delhi: Indian athlete Rani Yadav, who finished sixth in the women's 20km walk, has failed a dope test, Commonwealth Games Federation chief Mike Fennel said on Wednesday.
Rani was found guilty of using the performance-enhancement drug nandrolone. Earlier in the morning, the CWG chief had said that an Indian athlete had failed a dope test, but waited for the 'B' sample to be tested before announcing the name.
OC secretary-general Lalit Bhanot described the positive dope test as "unfortunate" and said this shame has happened despite everyone's best effort to avoid it.
"It's unfortunate. We tried our level best. Not just the federations but NADA (National Anti Doping Agency) and government authorities are very serious about this issue," he said.
"It's a difficult situation. It's unfortunate. We are hosts, we took precautions but it has happened unfortunately," Bhanot added.
This is the third doping scandal to hit the Games after Nigerian athletes, women's 100m gold medallist Osayemi Oludamola and 110m hurdler Samuel Okon, tested positive for stimulant Methylhexaneamine.
Oludamola has since then been stripped of the gold while Okon finished outside the medal bracket.
On the three doping cases that have rocked the tail-end of the Games, Fennell said that everyone would concede that 3 positive dope tests out of 1300 tests is not a bad record.
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