<p>Pistol shooter Anisa Sayyed was on Monday reprimanded by the anti-doping disciplinary panel for an in-competition positive test here in March 2012.<br /><br /></p>.<p>She tested positive for clomiphene, which falls under the 'other anti-estrogenic substances' in S-4 category of the prohibited list of the World Anti-Doping Agency and is not a performance-enhancing drug.<br /><br />Clomiphene is a specified substance, which meant that article 10.4 had to be applied in Anisa's case. Under 10.4 an athlete has to establish how the specified substance got into her body and he/she did not take it to enhance performance.<br /><br />Anisa, who won two gold medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games but failed to make the cut for the London Olympics, produced medical records to substantiate the requirements that forced her to take the medicine that resulted in the positive test.<br /><br />Accordingly, the three-member panel comprising Dinesh Dayal, Dinesh Khanna and Dr P S M Chandran, gave her a reprimand. The range of sanction applicable under 10.4 is 'warning' (or reprimand) to two years’ suspension.</p>
<p>Pistol shooter Anisa Sayyed was on Monday reprimanded by the anti-doping disciplinary panel for an in-competition positive test here in March 2012.<br /><br /></p>.<p>She tested positive for clomiphene, which falls under the 'other anti-estrogenic substances' in S-4 category of the prohibited list of the World Anti-Doping Agency and is not a performance-enhancing drug.<br /><br />Clomiphene is a specified substance, which meant that article 10.4 had to be applied in Anisa's case. Under 10.4 an athlete has to establish how the specified substance got into her body and he/she did not take it to enhance performance.<br /><br />Anisa, who won two gold medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games but failed to make the cut for the London Olympics, produced medical records to substantiate the requirements that forced her to take the medicine that resulted in the positive test.<br /><br />Accordingly, the three-member panel comprising Dinesh Dayal, Dinesh Khanna and Dr P S M Chandran, gave her a reprimand. The range of sanction applicable under 10.4 is 'warning' (or reprimand) to two years’ suspension.</p>
