India, Oct. 29 -- Parveen Hooda is sporting a new hairstyle and a beaming smile. On a comeback after serving a 14-month doping ban due to whereabouts failure, the 60kg woman boxer also claims to have a new perspective, towards sport and life.

Two seasons back, Hooda bagged a quota for the Paris Olympics in 57kg after a bronze medal at the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games. However, barely seven months later in the lead up to the Games, she was found guilty of flouting the anti-doping code and suspended by the World Anti Doping Agency for 22 months.

A whereabouts ban is imposed when an athlete misses three surprise tests within a year.

However, the ban was back dated by eight months, meaning the suspension lasted just over a year.

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