In recent days newspapers have been full of stories about athletes who tested positive for banned substances. The athletics coach, Yuri Ogorodnik from Ukraine, has been sacked because 6 female athletes being trained by him tested positive for methandienone. Mr Ogorodnik says that he gave only nutritional supplements to his charges because the quality of food provided to our athletes is abysmal. " We don't have a doctor. We do not have our food or good supplements. We don't have good places ( to stay or train ). The temperature soars to 40-45 degrees," said Mr Ogorodnik. ( TOI, July 9 ). " When we request they ( SAI ) give us only vitamins and proteins because they don't have any money. But for Olympics you need modern food supplements which are very costly. Here you get only rice and spicy food which is not good for the athletes. The supplements come from China etc which are not good quality supplements," he said. One athlete bought supplements from shops right outside Patiala's National Institute of Sports. So why are Indian athletes treated with such callous neglect? As the Commonwealth Games showed all sports organisations in India are controlled by politicians who, as we all know, are filthy criminal beggars. So much was looted from the CW Games that taxes in Delhi have had to be almost doubled to pay for the deficit. Yet the Wide Receiver is still in power. All the money allocated to sports is used by these criminals for foreign travel with families and friends. At any competition the scoundrels appropriate accommodation for athletes while our athletes sleep on the floor. These are a cancer in our society.