Two members of the Indian women's 4x400 gold medal-winning relay team at last year's Commonwealth Games have tested positive for anabolic steroids and been provisionally suspended.
Mandeep Kaur of India finished the Indian team's final leg to win gold in the women's 4x400 relay final at Guangzhou's Asian Games on Nov. 26, 2010.
Athletics Federation of India director Manohar Lal Dogra said Mandeep Kaur tested positive for stanozolol and Jauna Murmu for epimethandiol in out-of-competition tests conducted by athletics' world governing body at a training camp last month.
Their "B" samples were also positive. "They will not be part of any Indian team or camp until their cases come up for a hearing in front of a doping panel," Mr. Dogra told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Kaur and Murmu had both been expected to make India's squad for the Asian Championships in Kobe, Japan, from July 7.
The 23-year-old Kaur is a rising star in Indian athletics, having won relay golds at the Asian Games in Doha in 2006 and in Guangzhou last year. She also represented her country at the 2007 world championships and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Murmu, 20, has a lower profile and was only on standby for the Asian Games in Guangzhou.
The International Association of Athletics Federations is also expected to ban both athletes.
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