Olympic-bound Indian wrestler Sumit Malik has been provisionally suspended after failing a dope test during the recent Qualifiers in Bulgaria, a major embarrassment for the country with just weeks left for the Games in Tokyo. It marks the second consecutive instance of a wrestler being caught in dope net before the Olympics—the previous one being ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics when Narsingh Pancham Yadav had failed a dope test and was slapped a four-year ban.

Malik, the 2018 Commonwealth Games gold-medallist, 28, had qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in the 125kg category at the World Olympic Qualifier event in Sofia, Bulgaria which was the last chance for wrestlers to earn quotas. Malik’s participation at the main event starting July 23 seems uncertain now.