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Weightlifter Sanjita Chanu gets four-year ban for failing dope test

NEW DELHI: The National Anti Doping Agency (NADA) on Tuesday handed a four-year ban on Indian weightlifter Sanjita Chanu for failing a dope test last year.

Two-time Commonwealth Games champion Sanjita had tested positive for an anabolic steroid -- Drostanolone Metabolite -- which features in the World Anti-doping Agency's (WADA) prohibited list, during the in-competition testing at the National Games in Gujarat in September-October last year.

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