Press Trust of India
New Delhi, Sept 2: Just days after Yogeshwar Dutt’s London Olympics bronze was upgraded to silver, the star Indian wrestler’s medal may now get converted into gold with champion Toghrul Asgarov of Azerbaijan also returning positive for banned substance, a media report said Friday.
According to the report, Asgarov of Azerbaijan, who won the gold medal in the men’s 60kg freestyle category at the 2012 London Games, has tested positive for consuming performance enhancing drugs.
Earlier, Russian agency – ‘flowrestling.org’ – had reported that the four-time World Champion and two-time Olympic medallist Besik Kudukhov of Russia, who had died in a car crash in 2013 in southern Russia, was found to have used a banned substance in a test conducted by the WADA.
With both the gold and silver medallists in 60kg category testing positive for banned substance, Yogeshwar is in line to get a gold in case his sample comes out clean.
WADA is yet to officially communicate the news of Asgarov’s testing positive to the world body – United World Wrestling (UWW).
In fact, the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) is still awaiting official news on Yogeshwar’s silver medal upgradation also with UWW yet to confirm the development, as the wrestler’s sample is also being tested.
