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18 May 2024
The ITA confirms that boxer Parveen Hooda has been suspended for a 22-month period, effective until 16 July 2025, after committing three whereabouts failures within a twelve-month period as defined in article 2.4 of the International Boxing Association anti-doping rules (IBA ADR)1.
The case was resolved via an agreement on consequences pursuant to article 8.3.1 of the IBA ADR, and equivalent provision in the World Anti-Doping Code.
In addition to the period of Ineligibility, the athlete’s results obtained between 11 December 2022 until 17 May 2024 are disqualified.
Ms Hooda is thus ineligible to participate in the Olympic Games Paris 2024 and the matter related to her Olympic quota will be treated in accordance with the Paris 2024 Boxing Qualification System2, which does not fall under the ITA’s remits.
Insofar as the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the National Anti-Doping Agency of India (NADA) have a right to appeal against the sanction before the appeals division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, there will be no further comments.
1: Athletes included in a Registered Testing Pool (RTP), such as Parveen Hooda, have the obligations to provide daily whereabouts as well as a specific daily 60-minute time slot where they will be available for testing. The purpose is to allow anti-doping organisations to locate athletes for unannounced out-of-competition testing. Any combination of three missed tests (which relate to the athlete’s unavailability with respect to their 60-minute time slot) and/or filing failures (which are caused by the athletes’ failure to provide accurate whereabouts) committed within a twelve-month period amount to a potential anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) as per article 2.4 of the IBA ADR and the World Anti-Doping Code. The potential consequences for such an ADRV is a period of Ineligibility between one and two years and the disqualification of results.
2: https://boxing.athlete365.org/qualification-system-and-rules/
