new delhi dhanalakshmi sekar the womens 100m and 4x100m relay specialist and triple jumper aishwarya babu have failed dope tests just a week before the start of the commonwealth games in birmingham both have been ruled out of the event a development that dents indias medal aspirations its been learnt the substance found in dhanalakshmis sample is an anabolic steroidandrosterone she has been handed a provisional suspension for her firsttime doping offence aishwarya the karnataka long and triple jumper caught the attention of dope officials after her recent superb show at the interstate championships in chennaitimesviewindia is one of the leading offenders in the world of doping in sports the list of errant athletes continues to grow authorities need to take a strict longterm view of the menace and find ways to eradicate it the danger of letting matters drift can be extremely damaging russia was banned from international sports due to regular instances of doping offencesboth have been ruled out of the birmingham cwg scheduled from july 28 to august 8the members of the relay team were training in three different locations ooty trivandrum and almaty dhanalakshmi was preparing for the usa world championships and birmingham cwg in almaty where her sample was collected by the aiu its been learnt that the substance found in her sample is an anabolic steroid androsterone she has been handed a provisional suspension for her firsttime doping offence a senior athletics coach told toi the tamil nadu athlete was part of the womens 4x400m relay squad at the tokyo olympics she was named in the individual 100m sprint and 4x100m relay squad along with the likes of dutee chand hima das and srabani nanda for the cwg the afi had named a sixmember womens 4x100m relay squad with the other two members being mv jilna and ns simi so any one of them could replace dhanalakshmi in the squad so a replacement can be named the coach addeddhanalakshmi was also part of the athletics contingent for the ongoing worlds in eugene but had opted out of the event owing to visa issues it has now emerged that the sprinter had failed the dope testshe recently came into prominence after registering the third best time by an indian woman in 200m 2289s after saraswati sahas 2282s in 2002 and hima das 2288s last year at the xxxi qosanov memorial in kazakhstan on june 26 earlier last month she had clocked her personal best timing of 1126s to clinch the 100m title at the erzurum sprint international cup in turkeyin the case of aishwarya the karnataka long and triple jumper caught the attention of dope officials after her stupendous show at the interstate championships in chennai aishwarya who stands just over fivefeet tall had created history after becoming only the second indian after anju bobby george 683m to cross the 670m mark in the long jump after producing a 673m effort during the qualification round a day later she broke mayookha