India's Narsingh Pancham Yadav (Red) fights Japan's Daisuke Shimada in their Men's Freestyle 74 kg bronze medal wrestling match at Dowon Gymnasium during the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon September 29, 2014. REUTERS/Issei Kato
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Indian wrestler Narsingh Yadav was handed a four-year doping ban on Thursday after the World Anti-Doping Agency won its appeal against his earlier exoneration.
An Indian anti-doping disciplinary panel had ruled earlier this month that the freestyle wrestler was a victim of "sabotage", and cleared him to compete in Rio. Freestyle wrestling starts on Friday.
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