Chand is a two-time Asian Games silver medallist who holds the Indian nationwide 100-metre girls’s report of 11.17 seconds, and can also be one of many nation’s most well-known LGBTQ figures.

The 28-year-old stated in June that she supposed to retire after competing within the Paris Olympics subsequent 12 months, which might have been her third look after Rio and Tokyo.

But Chand has now been dominated out of competitors till at the very least 2027 after testing optimistic for banned substances, the Times of India reported late Thursday.

The athlete had been unable to display that she had taken prohibited medication with out “significant fault or negligence,” the newspaper reported, quoting an order by India’s Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel.

Chand examined optimistic for Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators, a category of medicine that mimic the impact of anabolic steroids, in keeping with the report.

Her four-year ban was imposed retrospectively from January, and the report stated she had three weeks to enchantment the choice.

Chand was born to a poor household within the jap state of Odisha and introduced in 2019 that she was in a same-sex relationship — a uncommon transfer in India.

The revelation prompted a backlash in her dwelling village and Chand stated she had struggled to beat the bias.

She additionally waged a protracted battle towards a ban from competitors after she was identified in 2014 with hyperandrogenism, a situation which produces excessive male intercourse hormones.

She took her case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport which dominated in her favour, permitting her to compete within the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, the place she received silver medals within the 100m and 200m girls’s races.