Where are you today?

Updated On: 10 August, 2009 06:22 AM IST | | BALAJI NARASIMHAN

There is a lot of controversy about the whereabouts clause of the World Anti-Doping Agency's drug-testing programme

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There is a lot of controversy about the whereabouts clause of the World Anti-Doping Agency's drug-testing programme. While some players and the BCCI have said that they don't want to sign up, others like sports minister M S Gill feel that BCCI should go ahead and sign it. At one level, the people who are opposing WADA's whereabouts clause seem to be right, and their concerns, which range from terrorism threats to perceived attacks on personal freedom, seem proper. But a deeper look makes us raise some questions. Yes, there are terrorism threats, but nobody is telling the players to announce on Twitter that 'I shall be here on this day three months hence, so terrorists can pick me up if they want to.' The plans of several heads of state are firmed up months in advance, but they are closely guarded secrets. Can't we work out a system whereby only key WADA officials know where a particular player is?