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USA Track & Field declined to select Richardson to the relay team for the Olympic Games in Tokyo after she accepted a one-month ban for the prohibited substance, which she said she used to cope with the death of her mother.
The positive test came at the US Olympic trials last month where Richardson established herself as a gold medal contender by winning the 100m in 10.86 seconds.
World Athletics last year fined Russia's suspended athletics federation and limited the number of Russian athletes allowed to compete at this year's Olympics to 10, in response to doping offences by senior federation officials.
The shot putter from Punjab shattered the 12-year-old Asian record of 21.13m which was in the name of Sultan Abdulm Al Hebshi of Saudi Arabia.
It marks the second consecutive instance of an Indian wrestler being caught in dope net before the Olympics -- the previous being ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics when Narsingh Pancham Yadav had failed one and was slapped with a four-year ban.
The adsorbent synthesised by Dr Vishal Mishra and his PhD students Veer Singh and Jyoti Singh, and has proved effective adsorption-cum-reduction of hexavalent chromium.
The government's flagship Khelo India programme was handed the biggest reduction -- of Rs 232.71 crore -- among all sports heads for the 2021-22 budget.
In a wide-ranging interview with Italian sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport, Pope Francis recalled his own days playing soccer as a child with a ball made of rags and laid bare his scorn for doping cheats.
Also confirmed for Paris by the IOC executive board were skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing. Those three sports will make their Olympic debuts at the Tokyo Games next year.
Bach will run unopposed next year for a second term, the IOC said on Tuesday.