Weightlifting: Indian lifter banned for life

Indian lifter Shailaja Pujari has been given a life ban by the international weightlifting body after a second doping offence last year, a senior Indian Weightlifting Federation official said yesterday. Pujari, a women's 75kg gold medallist at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, was caught for an unidentified banned substance in an out-of-competition test in September last year. She had earlier tested positive for the steroid stanozolol and was dropped from the 2006 Commonwealth Games team.