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Weightlifter Seema banned for four years for doping

Sentinel Digital Desk

New Delhi: 2017 Commonwealth Championships silver medallist weightlifter Seema has been handed with a four-year ban for doping by National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA). In an official statement, NADA said Seema's dope sample was collected this year during 34th Women National Weightlifting Championship held in Vishakhapatnam.

"The analysis report of her sample returned an Adverse Analytical Finding (AAF) for the presence of a prohibited substance namely Hydroxy-4-methoxy Tamoxifen (Metabolite of Tamoxifen), Selective Estrogen Receptor Modular (SERM) Metenolone, Anabolic Steroid Ostarine ( Enobosram), Selective Androgen Receptor Modular (SARM)."

All these substances are there in WADA Prohibited List of 2019. IANS