www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21363549 Wonder how many of the people referred to in this report play in the NRL or may have come over here? Pretty serious stuff if the reports are right.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21363549 Wonder how many of the people referred to in this report play in the NRL or may have come over here? Pretty serious stuff if the reports are right.

No wonder we could never beat them!

Don't be shocked and surprised if allegedly morally superior British athletes have been involved in this, or similar activities. Not that I'm suggesting any have of course...

Let’s not cast aspersions and take the morale high ground prematurely.

It does make you wonder why they didn't perform as well as they have in the past at the London Olympics.

Marshy - Their underperformance can probably be attributed to a decrease in investment since Sydney 2000. Also, I suspect that the current issue will all but solely concern impact sports such as both codes of rugby and Aussie Rules (impact in the loosest sense I admit).

Also, I can't see a great deal of benefit in taking HGH in most Olympic sports.

Andrew Johns anyone???

Could get interesting in the next few months

and the first (hopefully the last) from here, David Cookson from Oldham 6month ban for doping......

You could quite possibly be right there. So perhaps we will se a similar drop off in Brazil, which makes a mockery of cutting budgets to sport.

Well Daz: it's a great post, and we would hope that the truth will come out. I don't know why I should be surprised that the Australians have come out so publicly about this but I am. I'm not sure about the "out of focus" backdrop behind the main "piece to camera" that "appears" to show people throwing a rugby ball around.

It looks like there are a lot of "issues" presented in this piece including "fixing". I will await to see if this report gathers momentum or not.

Meanwhile, I think that the reason we haven't beaten the Australians has nothing to do with " illegal" substance abuse and more to do with us just not being good enough.

Regards D & L

Maybe so, but interestingly, not for the same reason. Team GB is predominantly National Lottery funded and I believe that they're matching their previous funding for this and succesive years. I'll double check the minor details on this but regardless of where the money comes from, it's staying the same amount.

My mate is likely to be swimming in Rio and if all goes to plan, I may be working their as well. Funding is a frequently debated topic for obvious reasons.

The way some of our ozzies have played over the years its was obviously a bad reaction to the drugs

More here.. www.channel4.com/news/drug-use-w ... port-video

More here.. www.channel4.com/news/drug-use-w ... port-video