Vinesh Phogat: NADA Serves Whereabouts Failure Notice To Retired Indian Wrestler

The National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) on Wednesday served a notice to wrestler Vinesh Phogat for whereabouts failure and sought an explanation within 14 days. (More Sports News)

All the athletes registered with NADA's Registered Testing Pool (RTP), of which Vinesh is a par𒐪t, are required to provide details about their availability for dope tests.

If they fill the detai🌺ls and are found not available on that location at that given time, it is considered a whereabouts failure.

The NADA, in its notice, conveyed to the wrestler-turned-politician that she had apparently committed a whereabouts failure as she was not availabl🍒e for a dope test on September 9 at her house in Kharkhoda village in Sonepat.

Vinesh had announced her retirement from the sport after her Paris Olympics campaign ended in heartbreak, ♒where she made the final but was disqualified ahead of her gold-medal bout for being overweight.

Vinesh and fellow wrestler Bajrang Punia joined the Congress party recently and she is contes😼ting the upcoming Haryana Assembly election from Julana constituency.

She has bee𒆙n busy campaigning in the Julana constituency these da🔴ys.

"You are hereby given a formal notice to notify you about apparent failure to comply with the whereabouts require꧋ments of the ADR, and to invite you to make any comments before we 💝come to a final decision on the matter," the NADA notice read.

"A Dope Control Officer (DCO) was sent to test you on that dav at that time and place. However, he was unable to locate you for te💜st🙈ing as you were not available at the given location."

Vinesh needs to either accept the fail🧔ure or provide evidence that she was present in that location for about 60 minutes.

It may be mentioned that one whereabouts failure does not constitute an anti💛-doping rule violation. There must be three whereabouts failures (whether filing failures or missed tests) within a 12-month period for NADA to charge an athlete.