India's campaign at the recently concluded Commonwealth Games in Glasgow has followed an embarrassing news that the authorities at the Games Village recovered needles and syringes from the rooms of Indian athletes, a report in the Times of India has revealed.
According to the report, the housekeeping staff at the Village confiscated needles and syringes on three occasions - first from a para athlete's room, then in the lounge and finally from the room that the Indian wrestlers were assigned.
To the Indian contingent's relief, the authorities at Glasgow let the athletes off with a warning and a written undertaking on each of those occasions.
India's Chef de Mission, Raj Singh, told TOI that the report was true but the athletes were clean. "The athletes used the syringes to administer multi-vitamin doses," he said. "There was no rule violation involved. I was present at the medical commission hearing and they too gave us a clean chit."
Singh, however, admitted that the management team travelling with the Indian contingent should have been more vigilant about allowing syringes to be transported to the Village.
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