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Even as the media storm around his positive dope test plays out, wrestler Narsingh Yadavs fate rests on the National Anti Doping Agency (NADA) hearing?in New Delhi on Wednesday. Here are some questions on the process to be followed:Who will represent him?He is being represented by Krida Legal, a Delhi-based law firm specializing in sports law. Managing partner Vidushpat Singhania, who will lead the defence, has previously served as secretary of the Mudgal panel that was ordered by the Supreme Court to look into the IPL scandal of 2013 and also defended fast bowler Pradeep Sangwan, who was found guilty of using an anabolic steroid during the 2013 IPL season. Singhania has already appeared before the three-member NADA panel at a preliminary hearing on Saturday. Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan said the verdict should be known by Thursday.What will the defence be?Although Singhania wasnt available for comment, sports law experts believe he faces an uphill task to get Narsinghs suspension overturned. The onus on the defence team will be to prove that the substance found in Narsinghs body was taken inadvertently and that he might have been the victim of a conspiracy -- as Narsingh, his coaches as well as the WFI claims. In all probability, Singhania and his team will base their legal strategy around Article 10.4 and 10.5 of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) code.Whats 10.4?As per Article 10.4, which deals with Elimination of the Period of Ineligibility where there is No Fault or Negligence: If an athlete or other person establishes in an individual case that he or she bears no fault or negligence, then the otherwise applicable period of ineligibility shall be eliminated.And 10.5?Article 10.5 deals with the Reduction of the Period of Ineligibility based on No Significant Fault or Negligence.?It states: Specified substances where the anti-doping rule violation involves a specified substance, and the athlete or other person can establish no significant fault or negligence, then the period of ineligibility shall be, at a minimum, a reprimand and no period of ineligibility, and at a maximum, two years of ineligibility, depending on the athletes or other persons degree of fault.?Is there a precedent?Since both his A and B samples have tested positive, Narsinghs case is not that he hasnt consumed the prohibited substance at all. As the WADA code allows him to escape with a reprimand or no period of ineligibility -- essentially a rap on the knuckles for not being careful enough -- his legal defence will focus on establishing that the banned drug was consumed unknowingly. They will also employ similar precedents from other sports to buttress their argument. Among the more prominent one involved one of the worlds leading badminton players, Ratchanok Intanon, who was recently cleared to compete in Rio after having testing positive for a banned substance in May.According to the Badminton World Federation (BWF), the drug found in Intanons body was administered directly into a muscle tendon for medical reasons, a procedure permitted under the federations rules. The panel concluded that because the route of administration of the substance in the medical treatment process was intratendinous - an authorised administration route - no violation of the regulations was committed, the BWF had said in a statement.And if the judgement goes against him?If the outcome of this process doesnt go in Narsinghs favour, he does have some legal options to appeal. The course of action on that front, if needed, will be decided based on the nature of the verdict. But Narsingh and his camp will be hoping that with the Olympics imminent, he is able to convince the panel of his innocence. Custom Carolina Panthers Jerseys .In my heart and mind Im competing for India, luge competitor Shiva Keshavan told The Associated Press in an email interview. Every day Im flooded with messages from Indians all over the world telling me they are supporting me. Will Grier Jersey . Louis Cardinals. 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His first stop after the layoff is the clay in Rio as he tests the back and tries to stay healthy for the French Open in three months. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Harvard center Zena Edosomwan pulls out his cellphone and scrolls back to the photos from his last trip to China. There, he finds a picture of himself at a Chinese market with a small boy of about 6 years old sitting high on his shoulders.Theres so much love and positive energy there, Edosomwan said last week as he prepared to return to China -- this time with the Crimson basketball team for its game against Stanford on Friday night. A lot of Stanford and Harvard players are going to be surprised. Theyre going to be like rock stars there.Two of the top academic universities in the United States, Harvard and Stanford are visiting Shanghai this week to open their mens basketball seasons -- and do a little brand-building while theyre at it. The schools are already well-known internationally -- Harvard has 1,802 students and scholars from China, according to its website -- but few there think of basketball when they think of the two prestigious institutions.Its an amazing chance, and were proud to be a part of it, proud to represent this great brand, this great school in China, Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said last week as he prepared to visit the country for the first time. Were not just thinking just for us; were representing Harvard. We try to do that wherever we go.For Stanford, its the third in-season international trip in the programs 102-year history (Mexico, 2009; Bahamas, 2012), though the team visited Rome, Florence, Venice and Como during a summer tour of Italy in 2015. This years visit by the Pac-12 follows one last year, when Washington beat Texas, and completes a two-year deal. The Pac-12 announced Friday a new two-year deal to play in China, with UCLA and Georgia Tech to play there next year.Visiting Harvard last week, Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said the trip reminded him of the ping pong diplomacy of President Richard Nixons administration and hoped it would help break down barriers between the nations.College sports diplomacy is a great trend, he said. Its a great game, and I think its a great entr?e for people to interact.For sure, it wont just be basketball on this trip.The Crimson arrived in Hangzhou on Sunday night and -- after sleeping off the 30-hour trip -- had a meet-and-greet at the online commerce company Alibaba. They visited some ancient temples on Tuesday and a museum on Wednesday before playing Jiao Tong University in an exhibition. On Thursday, they were scheduled to appear in the Shanghai Disney parade and make an appearance with students from a school funded by the Yao Ming Foundation.dddddddddddd Friday is back to work to prepare for the game, which is scheduled for noon Saturday local time, or 11 p.m. back on campus.The Cardinal had a shorter flight -- a mere 14 hours -- with many of the same activities planned, adding a Huangpu River Cruise and an exhibition against Tsinghua.All the while, players will have to keep up with their school work. Amaker said a half-dozen players have exams they will need to take on the trip -- scheduled to coincide with the time their classmates are taking the tests back home. A handful of China scholars and other Harvard officials made the trip with the team.Studying is part of the travel, Amaker said. Its going to be a lot thats put into it, but were hoping were going to gain a lot from it.Asked if there was anything special he was looking forward to on his first trip to China, Amaker said, Other than beating Stanford?Amaker arrived at Harvard in 2007 to find a basketball program with no past and not much of a future. The Crimson had never won an Ivy League championship in mens basketball before winning five straight, starting in 2011. Twice they have advanced in the NCAA Tournament by beating a higher-seeded first-round opponent.With that success has come a highly regarded recruiting class and new opportunities, like trips to the Battle for Atlantis in the Bahamas and the Great Alaska Shootout and now China.This is another layer that we can add to the growth of our program. The success that weve had in the past allows us to be invited and thought of for moments like this. And were proud of that, Amaker said. How lucky are we to have this opportunity in front of us, and to be able to thank basketball for something like this? This is where sports and athletics can provide opportunities that most people wont have.Edosomwan has been to China twice before, running an educational conference there last summer. He has taken six semesters of Mandarin and six other classes on China at Harvard, making him a bit of an expert among his teammates.I guess in a way I know a little bit more, Edosomwan said.And what did his teammates want to know?Mostly, he said, whats the deal with the internet?---AP Sports Writer Janie McCauley contributed to this story from Stanford, California. ' ' '