Sunday December 08, 2019
India’s NBA trailblazer Satnam Singh fails dope test AFP - Satnam Singh, the first Indian to be drafted into the NBA, has been provisionally suspended by India’s anti-doping agency after failing a drugs test last month. Singh, who joined the Dallas Mavericks in 2015, failed an out-of-competition test last month and was handed a temporary ban on November 19, according to the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) newsletter. The banned substance that was been detected in Singh’s sample was not confirmed. The 23-year-old Singh, standing 7 feet 2 inches (2.18 meters) tall, has denied the charge through a statement yesterday, asserting he is “clean”. “Mr. (Satnam Singh)
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Satnam Singh (R) failed a drugs test last month. (AFP/File/Adek Berry) Bhamara is disputing the said charge and has requested a hearing before the NADA Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel (ADDP) in order to put forth his case,” the statement
said. “Mr. Bhamara would like to state that he was and remains a clean competitor and has always played basketball fairly.”
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Singh, who did not play an NBA game, went on to play in the National Basketball League of Canada after signing a deal with St John’s Edge in September 2018. He has represented India at the Asian Championships, 2018 Commonwealth Games and the 2019 World Cup Qualifiers. There is also a Netflix documentary ‘One in a Billion’ which charts Singh’s remarkable journey from a remote Punjab village to the Mavericks.
Ex-skipper Smith set to become South Africa... From page 66 presidents of the 14 provincial affiliates – “to continue to guide us through this period and turn it around.” The press conference came after a tumultuous week during which five leading journalists had their accreditation withdrawn, a major sponsor announced it would not renew its agreement with CSA and chief executive Thabang Moroe was suspended on charges of misconduct. Nenzani said a lack of trust in Moroe by Smith was a factor in negotiations which have been conducted sporadically over a period of three months. Several prominent individuals, as well as the Gauteng cricket board and
the SA Cricketers’ Association, called for the board to stand down but Nenzani said the issue had not been raised at a meeting of the members’ council which started late on Friday and continued until the early Saturday. He brushed off the resignations of three of the board’s five independent directors. “We thank them for their service and will engage in a process to fill the vacancies,” he said. Nenzani said the respected Jacques Faul, the chief executive of the Northerns cricket union and a former acting chief executive of SA, had agreed to again become the acting chief executive with immediate effect.