Monika’s B sample positive

Indian Weightlifting Federation officials would not confirm the positive result as the matter is sub-judice but it is learnt that the IWF has received a letter from the National Dope Testing Laboratory in this regard.

Monika will now attract an automatic two-year ban from the IWF as this is her first dope offence and it will virtually rule her out of the 2010 Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games in Guangzhou in China next year.