New Delhi, Oct 13: One of India’s most well-known athletics coaches, Mohammad Yunus Khan, who has guided star long distance runner Gulveer Singh in his formative years, has been provisionally suspended for alleged “complicity” in an unspecified anti-doping rule violation.
Khan, a middle and long distance coach at the prestigious Army Sports Institute in Pune, has been charged by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) under Article 2.9 of its rules which relates to ‘complicity or attempted complicity by an athlete or other person’.
Article 2.9 of the NADA Rules prohibits “Assisting, encouraging, aiding, abetting, conspiring, covering up or any other type of intentional complicity or Attempted complicity involving an anti-doping rule violation, attempted anti-doping rule violation or violation.”
The 28-year-old Khan was a long distance runner till 2017 and a medallist in national events. The details and the exact nature of his alleged offence are not known currently. (PTI)