Table tennis-Twice Olympian Jha handed one-year ban for whereabouts failures

FILE PHOTO: Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Table Tennis - Men's Team - Last 16 - Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium - Tokyo, Japan - August 2, 2021. Kanak Jha of the United States in action against Mattias Falck of Sweden REUTERS/Thomas Peter

(Reuters) - Kanak Jha, who competed for the United States in table tennis competitions at the Rio and Tokyo Olympics, has been given a one-year ban for three whereabouts failures, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) said on Monday.

The accumulation of three whereabouts failures within a 12-month period is considered an anti-doping rule violation.