JOIN USYuri, whose six wards, including double Asian Games gold medallist Ashwini Akkunji, flunked dope tests in one of the worst doping scandals left India this morning, Athletics Federation of India sources told PTI.
“Yuri has left the country this morning. He has placed his version on the doping episode before the Justice Mukul Mudgal committee,” the source said.
Meanwhile, the AFI Anti-Doping Committee under Arun Mendiratta will begin its disciplinary hearing of Mandeep and Jauna on Friday.
National Anti-Doping Agency had written to the IAAF that the disciplinary hearings of Mandeep and Jauna be handed over to its panel as the duo had also returned positive in the tests conducted by it.
NADA is yet to get a reply from the IAAF on its letter and the AFI said that it will proceed the first hearing at 5pm on Friday if the issue is not settled by that time.