Bhubaneswar, Sept 25: Odia sprinters Dutee Chand and Srabani Nanda are under scanner over qualifying for Rio Olympics as the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) has raised suspicion over the automatic timer which had been used for recording their qualification timings.
Triple jumper Ranjit Maheswari and long jumper Ankit Sharma have also been put under the scanner list. As per published reports in national media, well-known Athletics statistician and IAAF official Henrique Hubling has prepared a list of athletes with doubtful times needed for Olympic qualification.
Notably, on June 25, Dutee had set an Olympic qualifying time of 11.24 seconds in the 100m race at Almati. However, she failed to maintain her qualifying time in the Olympics with a timing of 11.69 seconds and on June 26, Srabani barged a timing of 23.07 seconds in the 200m race to qualify for the Olympics. However, she too fared much worse at the Olympics with a timing of 23.58 seconds.
Hence, such differences between the qualifying timings and the actual race timings have raised doubts over the qualifying.
