Now that the World Anti-Doping Agency’s ‘Operation Carousel’ has exposed the many flaws in the National Anti-Doping Agency’s (NADA) dope-testing and whereabouts monitoring system and has suggested corrective measures, what are national federations doing to clean up the sport of dope cheats.
One asked the Athletics Federation of India, perhaps the most efficient national sport body which was awarded the best member federation by the Asian Athletics Association in Bangkok recently, to see if it is planning anything new.
The AFI has a strict no-needle policy at its national camps. And since it believes that it is easier to take illegal substances outside national camps, it has a rule that only national campers will be included in Indian relay teams for major championships. That, however, has not stopped national campers from failing dope tests.
