Assamโs sprint queen Hima Dasโs tremendous success at the international athletic meets has prompted National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) to monitor her future performances.
She has emerged one of the countryโs brightest medal prospects at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with a historic gold (400m) at the World U-20 championships in Tampere and multiple medals at the Jakarta Asian Games.
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Hima has been included by the anti-doping watchdog in its โRegistered Testing Poolโ.
It means she will be subjected to more frequent โout-of-competitionโ testing during her training and off-season time, apart from the regular โin-competitionโ testing during the meets at NADAโs laboratory.
Top athletes are included in NADAโs RTP with โhigh, medium and low riskโ depending on parameters like power, endurance and chances of an athleteโs medal-winning prospects.
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Sportspersons participating in power games like athletics, wrestling and boxing, among others, are put in โhigh riskโ of the RTP.
It has been done to protect Arjuna awardee Hima from the danger of any possible use of performance-enhancing drugs given her profile as the rising star of Indian athletics, according to NADA, reports TOI.
โBut at the same time, NADA wants to ensure that she remains clean, without getting into the danger of doping. NADA wants to clarify that in no way is it casting aspersions on her previous medal winning performances,โ said a NADA official.
NADA also informed that every international sports federation prepares its own RTP, while NADA makes its own to avoid duplication of names. โThatโs why javelin thrower is in the IAAF RTP list, while Hima is included by NADA in its RTP.โ