India's Jaismine Lamboria celebrates after winning the women's 57kg boxing final. (AP Photo) NEW DELHI: Just weeks before stepping into the ring at the Commonwealth Games, Jaismine Lamboria wasn’t thinking about medals. She was searching for answers. The recurring fever had refused to go away.Multiple medical tests showed nothing unusual and the Indian boxer tried to push through, managing the symptoms with paracetamol. When the illness persisted, she was admitted to a hospital in Mohali. Doctors finally diagnosed a bacterial infection, putting her on an intensive 14-day course of medication. For an athlete preparing for one of the biggest competitions of the year, it could...

CWG weightlifting (AP Photo) NEW DELHI: Three of the four Indian weightlifters, who tested positive for prohibited substances ahead of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and were subsequently dropped from the country’s 16-member squad, have accepted the doping charges against them, handing Indian weightlifting yet another embarrassing blow.Men lifters N Ajith (71kg) and Harcharan Singh (110kg), along with women’s lifter Vanshita Verma (77kg), have accepted the sanctions imposed by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA), effectively admitting the anti-doping rule violations (ADRVs) that derailed their and the country’s CWG campaign.The three lifters returned positive tests during the qualification period. Ajith and Pardeshi were widely regarded as...