India grapples with 'endemic' age-fraud menace in sports印度体育界“根深蒂固”的年龄造假问题令人担忧
NEW DELHI, Sept 3 (Reuters) - No fewer than 500 wrestlers were disqualified from India's under-17 championships for age fraud in June, highlighting a scourge experts believe is baked into the country's sporting culture and needs to be combated in the same way as doping.
Wrestlers practice at an akhara on the banks of Yamuna river in New Delhi, India, December 10, 2025. REUTERS/Bhawika Chhabra/File Photo
NEW DELHI, Sept 3 (Reuters) - No fewer than 500 wrestlers were disqualified from India's under-17 championships for age fraud in June, highlighting a scourge experts believe is baked into the country's sporting culture and needs to be combated in the same way as doping.
The exclusions at the Gonda meet were the latest in a string of age-fraud cases and came less than a year after some 20 teams were expelled from India's top schools football tournament, the Subroto Cup, due to fielding overage players.
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2025 年 12 月 10 日，摔跤手在印度新德里亚穆纳河畔的阿卡拉练习。REUTERS/Bhawika Chhabra/资料照片
新德里，9 月 3 日（路透社）——6 月份，至少有 500 名摔跤运动员因年龄造假而被取消参加印度 17 岁以下锦标赛的资格，这凸显了专家认为根深蒂固于该国体育文化中的一种祸害，需要像打击兴奋剂一样予以打击。
贡达运动会上的这次除名事件是近期一系列年龄造假案件中的最新一起，而就在不到一年前，约有 20 支队伍因派出超龄球员而被逐出印度顶级学校足球锦标赛——苏布罗托杯。
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