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Authorities have received more applications for exemptions under anti-doping regulations since the latest drugs in sport scandal. But ASADA insists that could just be a coincidence.

Essendon fans are angry at their treatment by the Australian Crime Commission and the investigation into drugs and administration. And the media is also in fans’ sights.

The report into culture and administration at Swimming Australia is damning. There was a critical failure of leadership, under a system that doesn’t put the best in charge, writes sports researcher Dr James Connor.

Dire warnings on drugs in sport have been taken up by the public, with Essential Research finding high levels of concerns about drugs (and betting) in sports. But fans won’t necessarily be turning off their TVs …

Given the corruption in sport, we must wonder — why is the reality so far from the ideal? Sport is not beyond the foibles of mere mortals — it is just like the rest of the things we do. And we should certainly not allow further investigative bodies, beyond national control, to police it.

The Australian government and ASADA, in damage control over allegations of sports doping, can learn from how Spanish authorities have approached the issue, writes Martin Hardie.

The very existence of drugs has sucked the life out of sport. The era of the glorious four-minute mile is drawing to a close — although sport will stagger on because big media needs it.

The furore over drug use in (male) sports creates an opportunity for women — ignored by the media and sponsors — to win more attention. Crikey publisher and Netball Australia director Marina Go makes the case.

Sports fans are bracing for the worst as sports and justice chiefs dropped a bombshell today: allegations of the widespread and systematic use of performance-enhancing drugs in Australian sport.

Growth hormone-releasing “peptides” might be rife in Australian sport. And no wonder — Crikey purchased a vial for nix from a US distributor in under a minute.

Crikey speaks to the doctor who advised Essendon conditioning staff on the supplements at the centre of a scandal that could blow up the AFL — and potentially other sports.

After booting out the cheats, cycling needs stronger leadership to clean up the sport and get to the bottom of systemic doping programs, writes sports and anti-doping consultant Catherine Ordway.

Martin Hardie, writer of the I Wish I was Twenty One Today: Beyond Doping in the Australian Peloton resarch report, discusses the perspectives and experiences of Australian professional cyclists and their cohort in relation to drugs in cycling.

The AFL’s three-strike illicit drugs policy appears set to drive a wedge between the clubs and the league.

So baseball legend Mark McGwire has joined the long list of drug taking sportsmen, admitting to taking steroids in 1998; the year in which he broke the single-season home run record. Jeez, who’s next? asks Leigh Josey.