Former Australian sprint queen Raelene Boyle says excessive financial benefits are to blame for doping.
DONE AND BUSTED: Marion Jones was hailed as champion at the 2000 Olympics, until she admitted to drug cheating seven years later. Picture: AFP Source: The Courier-Mail
Daily Telegraph Deputy Editor Tim Morrissey debates what he believes is the biggest story in the history of Australian sport.
Australia's most decorated beach volleyballer, and three-time Olympian Kerri Pottharst says it unfair her sport has been dragged into the ongoing drugs in sport saga.
THE laws that consigned Olympian Marion Jones to a lonely prison cell are the key weapon in Australian sport's new war on drugs.
Boffins in white coats with plastic bottles are no longer the ones to fear for players who cheat. Instead it is highly-trained and invisible cops armed with sophisticated surveillance gear.
Most importantly, special Federal Government coercive powers give Australian Crime Commission agents the right to grill athletes whenever and wherever they chose, searching houses, tapping phones or ordering them before hearings.
Anyone who lies to the ACC, refuses to answer their questions or jumps out the back window when they come knocking could go to jail.
Tests have been replaced by testimonies as the No.1 weapon in the fight on drugs.
The ACC has been gathering evidence for a year.
It has targets in the criminal underworld and in sporting codes.
All it needs to catch is one and with the powers of coercion, others should follow.
Refusal to rat-out dealers or teammates will not mean watching footy from the grandstands, it will mean watching from jail.
For the five or six years Jones was out-running her opponents on the track, she was also leaving drug testers in her wake.
When America's war on drugs was taken out of the hands of sports administrators and given to Federal Government prosecutors, Jones could run no more.
She eventually went to jail, not for failing a drug test but for lying about her involvement with Victor Conte, the founder of the disgraced drug lab BALCO.
The same fate could await any Australian footballer who makes the same mistake.
That is why Thursday's landmark revelations in Canberra should not be described as Australian sport's darkest day. Maybe, just maybe, we finally have a spotlight powerful enough to expose what goes on in the dark and murky regions just beyond the stadium lights.
The ACC does not go in for publicity stunts. It is not protecting a brand, selling memberships, merchandise or tickets. It is driven by catching bad guys.
We are all jaded by the broken promises of our sporting leaders, but no longer do we have to endure their chest thumping about how they will stamp out cheating.
The AFL can't send cheats to jail. The police can.
The AFL can't tap phones or raid homes. The ACC can.
Maybe now we can legitimately hope for some results.
Clearly, according to the ACC's report, the drug-testing regimes are not working.
The cheats are one step ahead of the drug testers, probably because they are more cashed up. They pay their scientists more.
But there isn't a masking agent on earth that can cover up the spoken word.
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