Rio de Janeiro: His dream of representing the country in Rio Olympics shattered after a verdict of the CAS, a devastated Narsingh Yadav yesterday said that he will do everything to prove his innocence.
<img title="India&rsquo;s 74kg wrestler Narsingh Yadav at the Sports Authority of India Complex at Kandivali in May this year" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2016/aug/20-Narsingh-Yadav.jpg" alt="India&rsquo;s 74kg wrestler Narsingh Yadav at the Sports Authority of India Complex at Kandivali in May this year" /> India&rsquo;s 74kg wrestler Narsingh Yadav at the Sports Authority of India Complex at Kandivali in May this year
In a stunning reversal of fortunes, wrestler Narsingh was ousted from the Olympics yesterday and slapped with a four-year ban for flunking a dope test after the ad hoc division of Court of Arbitration for Sports overturned the clean chit given to him by the National Anti-Doping Agency.
"To say I am devastated at the decision of CAS would be putting it mildly. I have gone through so much over the last two months off the mat but the thought of fighting for the glory of the nation at the Games had kept me going. My dream of competing and winning the country a medal at the Rio Olympics has been cruelly snatched away from me twelve hours before my first bout," Narsingh, who was to fight in men's 74kg category, said.
"But I will do everything it takes to prove my innocence. It is all I have left to fight for," he said in a statement issued by his sponsors JSW Sports.
The statement said that a review of the decision could be filed if further evidence is found pertaining to the claim of sabotage made by Narsingh.

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