<p>Yadav, who finished sixth in 1 hour, 42 minutes, 54 seconds in the 20km walk held on October 9 on Central Delhi streets, tested positive for prohibited anabolic agent 19-Norandrosterone.<br /><br />The announcement that she had flunked the drug test deflated India's euphoria over their best-ever show in the Games in which they have scooped up 32 gold, 26 silver and 33 bronze medals -- their highest in Games history.<br /><br />The day also saw England displace India from the second spot as they bagged two gold to draw level on the yellow metal count and move up a rung above with more number of silver medals.<br /><br />England now have 32 gold, 53 silver and 43 bronze medals.<br /><br />Yadav's name was withheld by the Commonwealth Games Federation initially and then revealed through a statement.<br /><br />The statement said the shamed athlete would either attend or will be represented at a provisional hearing before the CGF Court today.<br /><br />"The CGF can now confirm that the A sample of Rani Yadav, a competitor in the women’s 20 kilometre road race on October 9, 2010, was found to contain 19-Norandrosterone, a prohibited anabolic agent under category S1 of the WADA list of prohibited substances and methods," the CGF statement said.<br /><br />"Yadav has been provisionally suspended from the Games and, in accordance with the ADS, the athlete will attend, or be represented, at a provisional hearing before the CGF Federation court later today," it added.<br /><br />However, on the field, India continued their medal harvest, picking up a silver and a bronze before signing off from the Dr Karni Singh shooting.<br /><br />The silver was claimed by Heena Sidhu in the women's individual 10m air pistol while 2006 Games hero Samresh Jung earned the bronze in 25m standard pistol individual event.<br /><br />Heena missed the gold by a whisker as her 481.6 was just 0.3 less then Malaysia's Pei Chin Bibiana, who shot an impressive 481.9 to clinch the gold. Australia's Dina Aspandiyarova bagged the bronze with 478.8.<br /><br />The Indian woman shooter had won the gold in the 10m pairs event yesterday with Annu Raj Singh while Jung clinched the 25m pairs silver with Chandrasekhar Kumar Chaudhary.<br />'Goldfinger' Jung, who had won seven medals including five gold in the last edition in Melbourne four years ago, had to be content with a bronze medal in the standard pistol event after he totalled 559. <br /><br />Sidhu's silver, along with Jung's bronze in men's singles 25-metre standard pistol, compensated for Narang's flop show in men's singles 50-metre rifle prone.<br />But Gagan Narang failed to add to his tally of four gold by falling by the wayside for the second day running in his last event.<br /><br />"The idea was to get maximum number of gold but I was a little bit struggling with prone position," Narang later said.<br /><br />Indian shooters bade goodbye with 30 medals -- 14 gold, 11 silver and five bronze -- three better than at Melbourne.<br /><br />Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal's dreams of defending his table tennis men's singles title went up in smoke after he lost 3-4 to Singapore's Yang Zi in the semi finals.<br />But the paddler joined hands with compatriot Subhajit Saha to enter the men's doubles final.<br /><br />Sharath, ranked 40th in the world, put up a valiant fight against Yang in the last four clash but squandered an early 1-0 lead before going down closely in front of a capacity crowd.<br /><br />Sharath and former national champion Saha joined hands to despatch Andrew Baggaley and L Pitchford of England 3-2 and enter men's doubles final, assuring the host country at least a silver in that category.<br /><br />India are thus assured of at least four medals from the ping pong sport as it will be an all-Indian men's singles bronze medal play-off clash tomorrow, between Sharath and Soumyadeep Roy for the men's singles bronze medal .<br /><br />Indian women have already clinched a team silver, while their male counterparts have fetched a bronze in the team events.<br /><br />The doping shame, often the scourge of India's stints in multi-discipline events, came to light at the customary morning press conference addressed by Commonwealth Games Federation chief Michael Fennell.<br /><br />"We have received another positive (dope) result. The notice has been issued to the (Indian) chef de mission (Bhuvneshwar Kalita) at 9 am today," Fennell told the customary morning press conference here.<br /><br />"We (CGF) met late last night and served the notice to the chef de mission (Kalita) at 9 am," the CGF chief said.<br /><br />OC secretary-general Lalit Bhanot described the positive dope test returned by the Indian athlete as "unfortunate" and said this shame has happened despite everyone's best effort to avoid it.</p>
<p>Yadav, who finished sixth in 1 hour, 42 minutes, 54 seconds in the 20km walk held on October 9 on Central Delhi streets, tested positive for prohibited anabolic agent 19-Norandrosterone.<br /><br />The announcement that she had flunked the drug test deflated India's euphoria over their best-ever show in the Games in which they have scooped up 32 gold, 26 silver and 33 bronze medals -- their highest in Games history.<br /><br />The day also saw England displace India from the second spot as they bagged two gold to draw level on the yellow metal count and move up a rung above with more number of silver medals.<br /><br />England now have 32 gold, 53 silver and 43 bronze medals.<br /><br />Yadav's name was withheld by the Commonwealth Games Federation initially and then revealed through a statement.<br /><br />The statement said the shamed athlete would either attend or will be represented at a provisional hearing before the CGF Court today.<br /><br />"The CGF can now confirm that the A sample of Rani Yadav, a competitor in the women’s 20 kilometre road race on October 9, 2010, was found to contain 19-Norandrosterone, a prohibited anabolic agent under category S1 of the WADA list of prohibited substances and methods," the CGF statement said.<br /><br />"Yadav has been provisionally suspended from the Games and, in accordance with the ADS, the athlete will attend, or be represented, at a provisional hearing before the CGF Federation court later today," it added.<br /><br />However, on the field, India continued their medal harvest, picking up a silver and a bronze before signing off from the Dr Karni Singh shooting.<br /><br />The silver was claimed by Heena Sidhu in the women's individual 10m air pistol while 2006 Games hero Samresh Jung earned the bronze in 25m standard pistol individual event.<br /><br />Heena missed the gold by a whisker as her 481.6 was just 0.3 less then Malaysia's Pei Chin Bibiana, who shot an impressive 481.9 to clinch the gold. Australia's Dina Aspandiyarova bagged the bronze with 478.8.<br /><br />The Indian woman shooter had won the gold in the 10m pairs event yesterday with Annu Raj Singh while Jung clinched the 25m pairs silver with Chandrasekhar Kumar Chaudhary.<br />'Goldfinger' Jung, who had won seven medals including five gold in the last edition in Melbourne four years ago, had to be content with a bronze medal in the standard pistol event after he totalled 559. <br /><br />Sidhu's silver, along with Jung's bronze in men's singles 25-metre standard pistol, compensated for Narang's flop show in men's singles 50-metre rifle prone.<br />But Gagan Narang failed to add to his tally of four gold by falling by the wayside for the second day running in his last event.<br /><br />"The idea was to get maximum number of gold but I was a little bit struggling with prone position," Narang later said.<br /><br />Indian shooters bade goodbye with 30 medals -- 14 gold, 11 silver and five bronze -- three better than at Melbourne.<br /><br />Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal's dreams of defending his table tennis men's singles title went up in smoke after he lost 3-4 to Singapore's Yang Zi in the semi finals.<br />But the paddler joined hands with compatriot Subhajit Saha to enter the men's doubles final.<br /><br />Sharath, ranked 40th in the world, put up a valiant fight against Yang in the last four clash but squandered an early 1-0 lead before going down closely in front of a capacity crowd.<br /><br />Sharath and former national champion Saha joined hands to despatch Andrew Baggaley and L Pitchford of England 3-2 and enter men's doubles final, assuring the host country at least a silver in that category.<br /><br />India are thus assured of at least four medals from the ping pong sport as it will be an all-Indian men's singles bronze medal play-off clash tomorrow, between Sharath and Soumyadeep Roy for the men's singles bronze medal .<br /><br />Indian women have already clinched a team silver, while their male counterparts have fetched a bronze in the team events.<br /><br />The doping shame, often the scourge of India's stints in multi-discipline events, came to light at the customary morning press conference addressed by Commonwealth Games Federation chief Michael Fennell.<br /><br />"We have received another positive (dope) result. The notice has been issued to the (Indian) chef de mission (Bhuvneshwar Kalita) at 9 am today," Fennell told the customary morning press conference here.<br /><br />"We (CGF) met late last night and served the notice to the chef de mission (Kalita) at 9 am," the CGF chief said.<br /><br />OC secretary-general Lalit Bhanot described the positive dope test returned by the Indian athlete as "unfortunate" and said this shame has happened despite everyone's best effort to avoid it.</p>