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Fresh complaints at FIDE Rapid and Blitz: Woman player fined 100 euros for sports shoes; Nihal Sarin made to wait 3 hours, gives urine samples thrice

FIDE’s ongoing World Rapid and Blitz Championships has run into fresh controversies after more players complained on social media about various issues. This comes just days after some of the top grandmasters like Ian Nepomniachtchi, Fabiano Caruana, Maxime Vachier Lagrave and Pentala Harikrishna complained about former World Champion Magnus Carsen being provided additional facilities like a private lounge between games at the event in Samarkand. Indian teenage prodigy Nihal Sarin complained that he was made to wait for three hours and had to give three urine samples to FIDE’s dope testers after his event ended on Thursday. Meanwhile, Anna-Maja Kazarian, a Dutch chess player and popular streamer, said she was fined 100 euros by FIDE, the world governing body for the sport, for wearing w...
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Dope offender Dipa Karmakar’s return to training camp as per WADA rules, says gymnastics federation

The Gymnastics Federation of India (GFI) insists it has stuck to rules while naming Dipa Karmakar for a training camp, and that the athlete currently under suspension for a doping violation will return to international competition only after serving out her ban. GFI president Sudhir Mittal quoted Article 10.14.2 of WADA that states: “As an exception to Article 10.14.1, an Athlete may return to train with a team or to use the facilities of a club or other member organisation of federation (FIG’s) or other signatory’s member organisation during shorter of the (1) the last two months of Athlete’s period of Ineligibility, or (2) the last one-quarter of the period of Ineligibility imposed.” “For starters, we have named her as a core probable for the Asian Games in September, not the Asian Ch...