It has been raining medals for Team India in the ongoing Commonwealth Games (CWG) 2022 edition. On Tuesday (August 02), the Indian contingent added to its medal tally courtesy of women's fours final in lawn bowl, beating&nbsp;South Africa 17-10 whereas men's table tennis team beat Singapore to clinch medal at the event.

Further, the Indian badminton mixed team also made the country proud by winning silver, losing to Malaysia, in the final and the focus now shifts to the plethora of sporting events lined-up for Team India on Day 6 of the showpiece event, in Birmingham, i.e. on August 3&nbsp;(Wednesday).

Harmanpreet Kaur-led India women's cricket team will be back in action, facing Barbados in their third match whereas&nbsp;both the men's and women's hockey team will play Canada. Weightlifters and shot put thrower Manpreet Kaur will aim to add to the medal-tally as well. Here's the full schedule for India on Day 6:&nbsp;

Cricket:

Women's T20:

India versus Barbados - At 10.30 PM

Hockey: 
Women's Pool A: India versus Canada- At 3.30 PM 
Men's Pool B: India versus Canada - At 6.30 PM

Athletics:

Women's Shot Put final:

Manpreet Kaur (12.35 am on Thursday)

Weightlifting:

Men's 109 kg: Lovpreet Singh -&nbsp; At 2.00 PM 
Women's 87kg: Purnima Pandey - At 6.30 PM 
Men's 109 kg: Gurdeep Singh - At&nbsp;11 PM

Boxing:

Women: 
45kg-48 kg (minimum weight) quarterfinal round - Nitu Ganghas (At 4.45 pm) 
48-50 kg (light flyweight) quarters - Nikhat Zahreen (At 11.15 PM) 
66-70 kg (light-middleweight) quarter-finals - Lovlina Borgohain (At 12.45 am on Thursday)

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Men: 
54-57 kg (featherweight) quarters- Hussam Uddin Mohammed (At 5.45 pm) 
75-80 kg (light heavyweight) QFs&nbsp;- Ashish Kumar (At 2.00 AM on Thursday)

Lawn Bowls: 
Men's Singles: Mridul Borgohain - At 1 PM and 4 PM 
Women's Pair: India versus Nuie - At 1 PM and 4 PM 
Men's Four: India versus Cook Islands and England - At 7.30 PM and 10.30 PM 
Women's Triple: India versus Nuie - At 7.30 PM

Judo:

Women's 78kg quarters: Tulika Mann -&nbsp; At 2.30 PM onwards

Men's 100kg elimination Round of 16: Deepak Deswal- At 2.30 PM onwards

Squash:

Mixed Doubles Round of 32 against&nbsp;Sri Lanka - At 3.30 PM

It has been raining medals for Team India in the ongoing Commonwealth Games (CWG) 2022 edition. On Tuesday (August 02), the Indian contingent added to its medal tally courtesy of women's fours final in lawn bowl, beating South Africa 17-10 whereas men's table tennis team beat Singapore to clinch medal at the event.

It has been raining medals for Team India in the ongoing Commonwealth Games (CWG) 2022 edition. On Tuesday (August 02), the Indian contingent added to its medal tally courtesy of women's fours final in lawn bowl, beating South Africa 17-10 whereas men's table tennis team beat Singapore to clinch medal at the event. Further, the Indian badminton mixed team also made the country proud by winning silver, losing to Malaysia, in the final and the focus now shifts to the plethora of sporting events lined-up for Team India on Day 6 of the showpiece event, in Birmingham, i.e. on August 3 (Wednesday). Harmanpreet Kaur-led India women's cricket team will be back in action, facing Barbados in their third match whereas both the men's and women's hockey team will play Canada. Weightlifters and shot put thrower Manpreet Kaur will aim to add to the medal-tally as well. Here's the full schedule for India on Day 6: Cricket: Women's T20: India versus Barbados - At 10.30 PM Hockey: Women's Pool A: India versus Canada- At 3.30 PM Men's Pool B: India versus Canada - At 6.30 PM Athletics: Women's Shot Put final: Manpreet Kaur (12.35 am on Thursday) Weightlifting: Men's 109 kg: Lovpreet Singh - At 2.00 PM Women's 87kg: Purnima Pandey - At 6.30 PM Men's 109 kg: Gurdeep Singh - At 11 PM Boxing: Women: 45kg-48 kg (minimum weight) quarterfinal round - Nitu Ganghas (At 4.45 pm) 48-50 kg (light flyweight) quarters - Nikhat Zahreen (At 11.15 PM) 66-70 kg (light-middleweight) quarter-finals - Lovlina Borgohain (At 12.45 am on Thursday) ALSO READ | India beat South Africa to claim historic maiden gold medal in lawn bowls in Commonwealth Games Men: 54-57 kg (featherweight) quarters- Hussam Uddin Mohammed (At 5.45 pm) 75-80 kg (light heavyweight) QFs - Ashish Kumar (At 2.00 AM on Thursday) Lawn Bowls: Men's Singles: Mridul Borgohain - At 1 PM and 4 PM Women's Pair: India versus Nuie - At 1 PM and 4 PM Men's Four: India versus Cook Islands and England - At 7.30 PM and 10.30 PM Women's Triple: India versus Nuie - At 7.30 PM Judo: Women's 78kg quarters: Tulika Mann - At 2.30 PM onwards Men's 100kg elimination Round of 16: Deepak Deswal- At 2.30 PM onwards Squash: Mixed Doubles Round of 32 against Sri Lanka - At 3.30 PM

India's fixtures at CWG'22 on Aug 3: Harmanpreet & Co. in action vs Barbados, weightlifters eye more medals

Five weightlifters, including two Olympic champions, have been provisionally suspended after retests of their samples from the 2012 London Olympics came back positive for doping, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) said.

Ukraine's Oleksiy Torokhtiy could now be stripped of the Olympic title he won in the 105-kg category in London while Azerbaijan's Bulgaria-born Valentin Hristov could lose his bronze medal from the 56-kg category.

Uzbekistan's Ruslan Nurudinov, who came fourth in the 105kg in London, Belarus's Mikalai Novikau and Armenia's Melanie Daluzyan were also suspended after the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) re-analysis discovered adverse analytical findings, the IWF said in a statement.

Nurudinov won the Olympic title in Rio in 2016 as well as the world title in Poland in 2013 and the gold medal at the Asian Games in Jakarta this year.

Weightlifting is under fire over widespread doping offences and the IOC has threatened to remove it from the Paris 2024 Games if it fails to improve its record. The sport remains on probation.

The IWF has adopted a tougher anti-doping policy this year under which repeat-offender nations can be banned outright from the Olympics.

Five weightlifters, including two Olympic champions, have been provisionally suspended after retests of their samples from the 2012 London Olympics came back positive for doping, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) said.

Five weightlifters, including two Olympic champions, have been provisionally suspended after retests of their samples from the 2012 London Olympics came back positive for doping, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) said. Ukraine's Oleksiy Torokhtiy could now be stripped of the Olympic title he won in the 105-kg category in London while Azerbaijan's Bulgaria-born Valentin Hristov could lose his bronze medal from the 56-kg category. Uzbekistan's Ruslan Nurudinov, who came fourth in the 105kg in London, Belarus's Mikalai Novikau and Armenia's Melanie Daluzyan were also suspended after the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) re-analysis discovered adverse analytical findings, the IWF said in a statement. Nurudinov won the Olympic title in Rio in 2016 as well as the world title in Poland in 2013 and the gold medal at the Asian Games in Jakarta this year. Weightlifting is under fire over widespread doping offences and the IOC has threatened to remove it from the Paris 2024 Games if it fails to improve its record. The sport remains on probation. The IWF has adopted a tougher anti-doping policy this year under which repeat-offender nations can be banned outright from the Olympics.

Five weightlifters suspended after London 2012 retests

Russia&#39;s weightlifters face being banned from the Rio Olympics, subject to confirmation by the International Olympic Committee, in another collective doping punishment to hit the country. 
 
Five days after its track and field team&#39;s suspension from the 2016 Games was upheld, Russia&#39;s weightlifters are now also set to be suspended from the 2016 Olympics. 
 
Belarus and weightlifting superpower Kazakhstan were also banned over failed retests from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics on Wednesday by the sport&#39;s governing body, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), which also punished other nations by reducing the number of available athlete slots in Rio. 
 
Retrospective doping tests carried out by the IOC have led to 17 positives from 2008 and 2012, said the IWF. The governing body added there may be more cases to come. 
 
The IWF is awaiting confirmation of those failures and a final tally from the IOC, who were not immediately available when contacted late on Wednesday by Reuters. 
 
Earlier this week the IOC supported the IAAF&#39;s decision to continue its ban on all Russian track and field athletes as a collective punishment for the country&#39;s systematic doping problems, saying that such a decision was for each sport&#39;s federation. 
 
Because of those results, and an unprecedented 24 positives at the weightlifting world championships in Houston, Texas, last November, a special meeting was called for this week in Tbilisi, host of this weekend&#39;s youth world championships. 
 
The IWF, stressing its &ldquo;zero tolerance&rdquo; towards dopers, said it had taken 11 places away from teams who had committed four or more doping offences in 2015. Two of those teams were Russia and Kazakhstan, so the sanctions could yet be overtaken by a team ban. The others were Azerbaijan, North Korea and Moldova (two places each) and Belarus (one). 
 
As for the banning of entire teams, the IWF said in a statement: &ldquo;The IWF Executive Board has decided that national federations confirmed to have produced three or more anti-doping rule violations in the combined re-analysis process of the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games shall be suspended for one year.&nbsp;Countries thus subject to suspension are Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus.&quot; 
 
Because the tests were not carried out by the IWF, the sport&#39;s administrators are seeking formal confirmation from the IOC that the positives are not subject to appeal or amendment. 
 
The executive board also castigated the European Weightlifting Federation for its recent appointment of Sergey Systsov, president of the Russian Federation, as chair of its anti-doping commission. 
 
&quot;Given the current environment, the IWF Executive Board strongly suggests that Mr Syrtsov and the European Weightlifting Federation reconsiders the appointment,&rdquo; said a statement. 
 
The IWF has set up an independent commission to investigate the nations who returned three or more positives from the retesting of 2008 and 2012 samples, which was carried out after advances in science enabled better detection of prohibited substances. 
 
The worst offender was Kazakhstan. Ilya Ilyin, the world&rsquo;s most popular weightlifter, is expected to lose his gold medals from Beijing and London, while three Kazakh women who won in 2012 also tested positive. 
 
The IWF also vowed to toughen its anti-doping policy in future, threatening to ban nations who had the worst doping record during an Olympic qualifying period. It also said it would set up a task force and aimed to test every athlete, before the Games, who will be competing in Rio. 
 
The situation as of now indicates that four nations will not be allowed to compete in Rio. Bulgaria had been excluded last year, after 11 lifters at a training camp tested positive. Romania and Uzbekistan had already lost one quota place each. 
 
(Reuters)

Five days after its track and field team's suspension was upheld, Russia's weightlifters are now also set to be suspended from the Games

Russia's weightlifters face being banned from the Rio Olympics, subject to confirmation by the International Olympic Committee, in another collective doping punishment to hit the country. Five days after its track and field team's suspension from the 2016 Games was upheld, Russia's weightlifters are now also set to be suspended from the 2016 Olympics. Belarus and weightlifting superpower Kazakhstan were also banned over failed retests from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics on Wednesday by the sport's governing body, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), which also punished other nations by reducing the number of available athlete slots in Rio. Retrospective doping tests carried out by the IOC have led to 17 positives from 2008 and 2012, said the IWF. The governing body added there may be more cases to come. The IWF is awaiting confirmation of those failures and a final tally from the IOC, who were not immediately available when contacted late on Wednesday by Reuters. Earlier this week the IOC supported the IAAF's decision to continue its ban on all Russian track and field athletes as a collective punishment for the country's systematic doping problems, saying that such a decision was for each sport's federation. Because of those results, and an unprecedented 24 positives at the weightlifting world championships in Houston, Texas, last November, a special meeting was called for this week in Tbilisi, host of this weekend's youth world championships. The IWF, stressing its “zero tolerance” towards dopers, said it had taken 11 places away from teams who had committed four or more doping offences in 2015. Two of those teams were Russia and Kazakhstan, so the sanctions could yet be overtaken by a team ban. The others were Azerbaijan, North Korea and Moldova (two places each) and Belarus (one). As for the banning of entire teams, the IWF said in a statement: “The IWF Executive Board has decided that national federations confirmed to have produced three or more anti-doping rule violations in the combined re-analysis process of the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games shall be suspended for one year. Countries thus subject to suspension are Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus." Because the tests were not carried out by the IWF, the sport's administrators are seeking formal confirmation from the IOC that the positives are not subject to appeal or amendment. The executive board also castigated the European Weightlifting Federation for its recent appointment of Sergey Systsov, president of the Russian Federation, as chair of its anti-doping commission. "Given the current environment, the IWF Executive Board strongly suggests that Mr Syrtsov and the European Weightlifting Federation reconsiders the appointment,” said a statement. The IWF has set up an independent commission to investigate the nations who returned three or more positives from the retesting of 2008 and 2012 samples, which was carried out after advances in science enabled better detection of prohibited substances. The worst offender was Kazakhstan. Ilya Ilyin, the world’s most popular weightlifter, is expected to lose his gold medals from Beijing and London, while three Kazakh women who won in 2012 also tested positive. The IWF also vowed to toughen its anti-doping policy in future, threatening to ban nations who had the worst doping record during an Olympic qualifying period. It also said it would set up a task force and aimed to test every athlete, before the Games, who will be competing in Rio. The situation as of now indicates that four nations will not be allowed to compete in Rio. Bulgaria had been excluded last year, after 11 lifters at a training camp tested positive. Romania and Uzbekistan had already lost one quota place each. (Reuters)

Russia faces another Rio ban over dope tests

The &#39;B&#39; samples of two Russian women&#39;s weightlifting medalists from the 2008 Beijing Olympics have come back positive for steroids, Russian state news agency Tass reported yesterday.
Marina Shainova who won silver in the 58-kilogram class and Nadezhda Evstyukhina, bronze medalist in the 75-kg division, were among 10 Russian medalists from Beijing who reportedly tested positive last month in International Olympic Committee (IOC) reanalysis of their stored samples.

Shainova&#39;s coach, Vladimir Shainov, told Tass that the two lifters have now also tested positive for turinabol in their &quot;B&quot; samples.

&quot;The document about a further decision has not come yet, but now of course, they will take away the medal and disqualify. Evstyukhina is in the same situation,&quot; he said.

Once a &quot;B&quot; sample confirms the original positive finding, the IOC can open a formal doping case. The two could be stripped of their medals. Other Russian medalists from the Beijing Games who were reported to have failed retests last month included bronze medalist Anna Chicherova, who won the high jump gold at the London 2012 Games and Yulia Chermoshanskaya who won gold in the 4x100-meter relay.
The IOC stores Olympic doping samples for 10 years, so that it can reanalyze them when new testing methods become available.

Document about a further decision is yet to come, but medals will be taken away from Marina Shainova and Nadezhda Evstyukhina

The 'B' samples of two Russian women's weightlifting medalists from the 2008 Beijing Olympics have come back positive for steroids, Russian state news agency Tass reported yesterday. Marina Shainova who won silver in the 58-kilogram class and Nadezhda Evstyukhina, bronze medalist in the 75-kg division, were among 10 Russian medalists from Beijing who reportedly tested positive last month in International Olympic Committee (IOC) reanalysis of their stored samples. Shainova's coach, Vladimir Shainov, told Tass that the two lifters have now also tested positive for turinabol in their "B" samples. "The document about a further decision has not come yet, but now of course, they will take away the medal and disqualify. Evstyukhina is in the same situation," he said. Once a "B" sample confirms the original positive finding, the IOC can open a formal doping case. The two could be stripped of their medals. Other Russian medalists from the Beijing Games who were reported to have failed retests last month included bronze medalist Anna Chicherova, who won the high jump gold at the London 2012 Games and Yulia Chermoshanskaya who won gold in the 4x100-meter relay. The IOC stores Olympic doping samples for 10 years, so that it can reanalyze them when new testing methods become available.

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