In a huge setback to the Indian wrestler just days ahead of his Olympic bout, Narsingh Yadav has been banned for 4 years and will hence not be able to participate in the Olympics. he Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) on Friday overturned the clean chit given to Narsingh by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) and slapped him with a four year ban. After this ban now, Yadav will be forced to vacate his room on the Games Village on Friday morning. "The CAS panel did not accept the argument of the athlete that he was victim of sabotage and noted that there was no evidence that he bore no fault, nor that the anti-doping rule violation was not intentional.

Therefore, the standard four-year period of ineligibility was imposed on the by the panel," an official release of CAS said. “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.