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Yesterday it was about WADA...
So what is new today ?
NADA
Yes, National Anti-Doping Agency. It is the Indian version of the WADA. It is an autonomous body that comes under the purview of the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports. Full marks for guessing that this was formed to clean-up Indian sports. Especially after the dark era of weightlifting post the last Commonwealth games. This is the same body which handled the Monika Devi episode during the Beijing Olympics.
Post that episode the Sports ministry wanted to streamline the operations of this body. The first step for them was to write to all the sports federations in India asking them to be part of this body. There were some associations that readily complied with this request and adopted their anti-doping standards. There were many who didn't even care to reply thinking NADA was just another nada.
Finally the Sports ministry thought enough is enough and promulgated a notice in the gazette and got it published in the leading dailies in India.
What did those ads say ?
All sports bodies in India needed to write back and comply to the NADA regulations. It would be taken for granted that those who don't reply by September 15, 2008 concur with the regulations of NADA.
It would be September 15 in another month the only difference, this is 2009. There still were associations that have not complied. Among those who failed to respond was this big, cash rich sports body. They suddenly woke up yesterday, roughly a year after the deadline according to the newspaper ads and more than that if you take into consideration the initial communication that was sent to all the sports associations in India.
I am sure you would have guessed right by now... BCCI is the body we are talking about. There are some of us who believe that BCCI had the "GUTS" to reject WADA, that was day before if I am not wrong.
Do those of us feel gutted now, that BCCI is signing up with NADA - the country cousin of WADA ?
May be all this while BCCI had doubts about the "whereabouts", of NADA
Or was that the "Whoabouts" ?
Tail piece: NADA also goes by the WADA code, so what's the point in rejecting one and embracing the other ?
ICL & IPL... Does that ring a bell ?
So who will be the Noah of NADA ??
NADA: Whoabouts are you ?
He is safe and Sound!!
Didn’t I say he would be back soon?
But I didn’t expect that he would comeback this soon. So stunning was his comeback post that he wrote the word “Emotional” in English but yet Bengali to be really emotional.
Don’t believe me? Read it here for yourself.
I am expecting spicier stuff to appear on this blog in the coming days. I wouldn’t be surprised even if a Yahoo, Google or a MSN try to buy this blog out and make it a 100% commercial venture. Such seems the hype, coverage and the sensational posts that are.
They give you some sensational fodder to chew, make you long for the next installment. That is precisely what happened, rumour mills abound with the news that he has been caught, he is being packed off and he wouldn’t blog and so on. And then pat comes another one. I also think this can’t be the handiwork of just one blogger, it should be a collective. Yes many writers getting inputs from multiple sources.
In the end who knows, it might be another ploy by the Noah himself to get more publicity for his so called invention.
It's getting crazy
Just back after breakfast, things are hotting up here in pursuit of the poison pen. Yes, heard from one of the Coachie's boys that Dildo and the management are in discussions with Noah, the creator. They want to employ private detectives to sniff me out.
I am sure they can't and I'm going to keep posting at both places. Personally, I think Noah has better things to do in life.
