The National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) has slammed a four-year ban on Ravi Kumar Katulu and four other athletes — Purnima Pandey, Dharam Raj Yadav, Sanjeet, and Gurmail Singh — for doping. With the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo just nine months away, the development is an embarrassment to the nation.

Olympian KT Irfan missed out on a bronze medal at the ongoing 7th Military World Games in Wuhan, China after finishing fourth in the 20 km race walk event on Friday by clocking 1:25:09s. Irfan holds the national record for the 20 km race walk event which he made at the 2012 London Olympics.

India’s star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra will be returning to action at the National Open after a year as he had surgery for an elbow injury and missed this April's Asian Championships and the Worlds in Doha. Annu Rani, returning from the Worlds, will take part but Avinash Sable is doubtful.

Asiad 2018’s gold medal-winning heptathlete Swapna Barman has hit out at West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for not keeping her promise of giving her a land after her achievement. The Jalpaiguri-based athlete has also been excluded from the TOPS, making things all the more difficult for her.