MONACO (AP) — Track and field investigators have classed India as an “extremely high” risk for doping and imposed stricter testing on athletes from Botswana including a stellar men’s sprint team ahead of the 2027 world championships.

By Amlan Chakraborty NEW DELHI, April 20 (Reuters) - Indian athletes must now meet tougher anti-doping requirements after their federation was placed in World Athletics' highest-risk category, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Monday.

The 2023 Wimbledon champion said “fear clouded (my) judgment,” and could now be facing up to a four-year ban from tennis.

India ranked among the top two in athletics’ most anti-doping rule violations between 2022 and 2025, AUI says.

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New Delhi, Left red-faced after the Athletics Integrity Unit designated India as a country with an "extremely high" risk of doping, the national federation on Tuesday said it will work with the National Anti-Doping Agency and the Sports Ministry to quickly come out of the category of worst doping offenders.

Indian athletes are now facing significantly tougher anti-doping requirements after their national federation was placed in World Athletics' highest-risk category, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced on Monday.

The 2023 Wimbledon champion said she is “working to clear my name” in a statement on social media. She could face a four-year suspension.

The athletics community of India has been left redfaced with the classification by anti-doping watchdog of World Athletics' as India being an ‘extremely high risk’ category for substance abuse. The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has changed the grading of Athletics Federation of India from ‘B’ to ‘A’— raising a chatter whether it will interfere with the country’s Olympics 2036 ambitions.

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