According to WADA guidelines, “any combination of three whereabouts failures (filing failure and/or missed test) within a period of 12 months constitute an anti-doping rule violation, for which the applicable sanction is 2 years’ ineligibility subject to a reduction to a minimum of 1 year depending on your degree of fault.”

The Indian boxing contingent returned with 4 Olympic quotas — all within the girls’s classes — and 5 medals, together with a silver gained by world champion Lovlina Borgohain from the Asian Games.