EVEN AFTER OUR REPETATIVE DISMISSAL PERFORMANCE IN ALL SPORT, WHY MR. KALAMADI IS AT THE HELM OF SUCH A ORGANSITATION, WHICH IS BEING USED OF ALL OTHER PURPOSES THAN TO PROMOTE SPORTS, WHY NO IOA AUTHORITIES ARE ANSWERABLE FOR SUCH A FAILURE , POLITICIANS SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM SUCH ORGANSIATION AND MORE PROFEFSSIONAL APPROACH SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO IMPROVE STATUS OF OTHER SPORTS IN INDIA, TRY TO STUDY OTHER GOVERNING BODIES IN OTHER COUNTREIS
This is yet another episode of the usual incompetence of SAI/IOA. We need to understand these bodies just exist in India because some section of us need to be in 'some' power and mess up other people's lives - in this case sportspeople. Cannot imagine how the office bearers of such bodies go on and on in their offices without any shame - otherwise they would have by now have an explanation for why a nation of one billion people can still only be TALKING about an olympic medal and put in place effective measure. Their indifference only shows they can't just be bothered, that they take everything for granted and get away with it all the time - while all the rest of us still dream of India becoming a superpower. Dreaming is one thing - but being oblivious of things on the ground is plain stupid. Let us not deceive ourselves anymore. Let us for once be clear OLYMPICS is not for us - let us not waste time anymore.
Th econcerned officials of SAI should be severley punished, and an example should be set, so as to ensure that such incidents do not happen again. Life imprisonment should be considered.
Monika is lucky that the people of Manipur and indeed a good section of the Northeast, identified their own sense of victim-hood with her sorry predicament. Perhaps there is an element of truth in this perceived sense of hurt too, for victimisation has been obvious not just in sports, as was well illustrated by the ugly episode in which a Naga woman journalist was not allowed to enter a South Delhi lounge bar Urban Pind by its management because “she did not have the right profile”, while her non-Northeastern companions were. Perhaps in the end, even Indian sports, would have much to thank the sensitive reaction in Manipur to the manner in which the career of a local athlete is being destroyed so recklessly. Without such expression of outrage, the corruption corroding the top institutions of sports in the country would never be challenged enough to provoke the establishment to rethink, thus making more hapless athletes vulnerable in the future. It may be noted that the Manipur chief minister, Okram Ibobi, has in a press conference in New Delhi today, made known his government’s decision to move the Union government to have the CBI probe the incident.
The sorry episode in which a woman athlete from Manipur, weightlifter Laishram Monika Devi ended up victimised by petty and seemingly entrenched politics in the top governing bodies of sports in India, in particular the Sports Authority of India, SAI (sigh!), and the Indian Olympics Association, IOA, is a loud testimony why a nation of over a billion has been unable to win even a single individual Olympics gold in the entire history of the Olympics. This, almost total lack of Olympics achievement becomes painfully stark when considered against the fact that a country like Surinam, which is merely a tiny spec in the middle of the ocean, and probably a majority of the world population would be unable to detect without assistance even on a wall size map, have achieved the feat. Impoverished countries like Ethiopia and Jamaica have been doing very much the same, and consistently too. Yet few or nobody in India seems bothered enough. The country remains content that it plays cricket well, a game played by a motley dozen countries, we suppose somewhat like Malaysia boasting it can play sepak takraw better than any other country. We hope we are wrong, but it is quite probable that India will return empty handed yet again from Beijing. Another thing is equally predictable. Even in the event of another disastrous performance, no institutional heads of the sporting establishment would roll, and like modern feudal lords, they would continue to hold their corrupt non-performing sway over
give us a break you corrupt officials tainting a sportspersons's image and reputation for a few bucks!! just to get an undeserving candidate on board! shame on the officials and administrative heads for even considering this option whereby putting our country's pride at stake all the time. get rid of corruption in sport or else be happy with just a performance in the opening ceremony of the olympics. give our deserving atheletes a chance to prove their mettle against the best in the world.
