India second in list of banned athletes: AFI sees positive signs

India is currently placed second in the list of countries with the most athletes currently ineligible to participate in international events.

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But the outgoing president of the Athletics Federation of India (AFI), Adille Sumariwala, and World Championship bronze medallist Anju Bobby George feel this is actually a good thing that more people are getting caught, which indicates that more testing is being done to catch all the "crooks and culprits".

According to data made available by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for the year ending December 2024, Kenya tops the list with 119 cases while India is second at 108.

Russia is third in the countries with the most ineligible athletes at 73. China, in contrast, has only 26 such cases, while the United States has only 16 such athletes.