Greater Noida, Jul 11 (PTI) Olympic bronze-medallist lifter Karnam Malleswari feels generating awareness is a more effective solution to overcome the doping menace prevalent in sports such as weightlifting than punishing athletes.

Weightlifting has been marred by doping. Scores of doping cases have been uncovered in the sport in recent years. The problem was so bad that weightlifting faced the risk of removal from the Olympics Games.

India too ranks very high in doping violations.

“Weightlifting has a bad reputation for doping but it’s (doping) there everywhere. I have an academy and when I meet the children I just say ‘do not listen to wrong guidance’,” Malleswari told

Source: PTI News