In the wake of equestrian star Jock Paget's horse testing positive for a banned substance, Phil Taylor asks whether our reaction betrays a double standard

All you have to do to understand how deeply entrenched drug-taking is in sport is to go to Google. Type in "fake penises for drugs testing" and up comes a website called Detox For Less, selling a US$150 Whizzinator.

As Jesse Ryder's case shows, the use of dietary supplements to lose weight is far different from taking performance-enhancing drugs.

Perhaps the thing that grates most of all about the latest rash of track stars falling to positive drugs test is that so many seem to be living in that great river in Egypt.

Sport, at international and national levels, seems to constantly be in a doping crisis.

Valerie Adams fears her drinks or food could be spiked with banned drugs when she heads to Moscow next month for the track and field world championships.

Canberra are standing by Sandor Earl in the face of allegations the winger was treated with peptides in 2011. He is under investigation by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority.

Two-time Olympic shot-put champion Valerie Adams wants officials to look into Nadzeya Ostapchuk's win at the 2010 world indoor championships after it emerged yesterday Ostapchuk is facing a life ban for two failed drugs tests.

Olympic 1500m track champion Asli Cakir Alptekin of Turkey has been charged with doping and could be stripped of her gold medal.

Police broadly do the best they can, but are continually let down by soft-touch judges and the mental health system.

Cronulla standoff Todd Carney says the Sharks need the drug crisis engulfing the club resolved as soon as possible, admitting the side can't play on emotion all season.

It won't be gold, but Valerie Adams has the chance to upgrade a medal won at the 2005 world championships after her nemesis Nadzeya Ostapchuk failed a retrospective drugs test from those championships.

Rugby League Players' Association chief David Garnsey says anti-doping authorities shouldn't punish players for taking performance-enhancing drugs if they were unwittingly sanctioned by clubs.

He kicked it. Now he has to catch it. But the biggest bomb in Australian sport is proving hard to handle for Australian Crime Commission boss John Lawler.

The head of the World Anti-Doping Authority believes New Zealand sports bodies have to take a closer look at their operations in the wake of the Australian Crime Commission's findings.

Our sports bodies are anxious to distance themselves from the drugs and criminal connections that are said to have penetrated some of Australia's proudest professional sports.

Fancy being an Australian sports lover this weekend? Didn't think so. In small, steady increments the innocence of sport has been eaten away down the decades.

I'm still waiting for my blood to boil about Lance Armstrong, but it just ain't happening, writes Chris Rattue. There are, I think, too many far more important issues to be incensed about.

There's a new case study coming for the public relations text books and for all sports bodies and sportspeople - the rehabilitation of Lance Armstrong, says Paul Lewis.

Watch as disgraced cyclist Armstrong loses himself in his host's deep, trusting eyes, writes Toby Manhire. Watch as the tears roll authentically down his contrite face.

Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong is on a contrition tour every bit as emotionally gruelling as the seven he won in France.

I had intended to avoid the subject of Lance Armstrong in this column, writes Dana Johannsen. But, like most of us, I've been sucked into the hype generated by the Oprah machine.