Well, NADA’s process is tough—if your test comes positive, you face a long suspension and a hearing there itself, no matter your story. For an appeal to CAS in Switzerland from India, you need serious money for lawyers and fees, which feels impossible when your family’s savings are for rice and repairs, not international sports courts. So, while the rulebook says ‘appeal to CAS,’ my reality says sometimes you just accept the ban, because fighting a faraway court is a rich athlete’s jugaad. I’ve seen a senior in my college lose his scholarship over a disputed test—his family couldn’t even afford the train fare to Delhi for a lawyer, let alone CAS.
#swimming#open-water
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