New Delhi: One other optimistic dope check has hit India’s preparations for the upcoming Asian Video games, with wushu medal hopeful Surya Bhanupratap Singh changing into the most recent athlete to be provisionally suspended by the Nationwide Anti-Doping Company (NADA).The 30-year-old from Jammu & Kashmir, a 2018 Jakarta Asian Video games bronze medallist within the males’s 60kg Sanda, failed an anti-doping check for Enobosarm (Ostarine), a selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM) designed for muscle and bone improvement. Ostarine is strictly prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Company (WADA) and categorised below S1.2, or “different anabolic brokers”.Bhanupratap has been dropped from the Asian Video games squad and his title deleted from the govt-approved last contingent.Bhanupratap’s case takes the variety of Indian athletes failing dope checks for the reason that current Glasgow Commonwealth Video games to 12, an alarming spurt that has affected a number of disciplines and, in some circumstances, price India competitors quotas.The record contains weightlifters N Ajith (71kg), Sairaj Pardeshi (88kg), Harcharan Singh (110kg) and Vanshita Verma (77kg); judokas Arun Kumar (73kg) and Tulika Maan (+78kg); shooter Gaurav Kumar Masoori (10m air pistol); rower Lakshya (light-weight double scull); wrestlers Mukul Dahiya (86kg freestyle) and Deepanshu (130kg Greco-Roman); runner Abhishek Pal (5,000m and 10,000m) and now Bhanupratap (65kg Sanda).The spurt in doping circumstances has already pressured India to trim its weightlifting illustration for the Asian Video games. The Glasgow quota was hit by a number of violations, whereas solely 5 lifters have been named for the Aichi-Nagoya multisport occasion – Mirabai Chanu (49kg), Gyaneshwari Yadav (53kg), Seram Nirupama Devi (61kg), Harjinder Kaur (69kg) and Rishikanta Singh (60kg).Wrestling has additionally misplaced two Asian Video games spots, shrinking from 18 to 16 after Dahiya and Deepanshu have been suspended.Bhanupratap was a robust medal prospect within the males’s 65kg Sanda occasion. He’s additionally a two-time World Wushu Championships bronze medallist, ending third within the 60kg class in Jakarta in 2015 and Kazan in 2017. His 2018 Asian Video games bronze got here in the identical class.With Bhanupratap’s exclusion, India’s wushu squad now contains seven athletes. The most recent case underlines the rising problem for NADA and Indian sports activities authorities as they attempt to preserve doping cheats out of Video games squads.