Overview
- The Athletics Integrity Unit list, updated to April 1, shows 148 Indian track athletes ineligible, two more than Kenya, with Russia third at 66.
- The AIU, an independent watchdog set up by World Athletics, records bans for positive tests as well as offences like tampering, evading tests, trafficking, or missing whereabouts.
- The Athletics Federation of India says it will track centres linked to doping and require every coach to register, with unregistered coaches blacklisted and their trainees barred from national awards.
- Recent testing history helps explain the surge, with WADA and NADA reporting 260 positives from 7,113 Indian samples in 2024 for a 3.6% positivity rate.
- Oversight has grown harder since the Paris Olympics because national camps were decentralised, leaving most elite athletes to train with private groups or units such as Reliance, JSW, Tata, the Army, and the Navy.