"We have always had trouble attracting FIFA to the problem,” Dick Pound, the founding president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, said last month. He’s got muscles on his muscles. It became known as “the world's dirtiest race”.In a recent Four Corners documentary, doubt was cast over whether 100-metre Jamaican sprinter and world record holder Usain Bolt was clean. We have no leeway," Grace said.Athletics Australia late last year hired Lynda Gusbeth as an athlete education officer within the integrity department to try to educate and reinforce to athletes the importance of diligence in documenting their whereabouts and the potential dangers of supplement use if athletes could not be certain of what was in a product. Dr Ojas Mahapatra will be the company’s inaugural CEO. Australia has been at the forefront in the fight against doping in sport. It was one of the first countries to establish a sports anti-doping agency and is a member of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). It became known as “the world's dirtiest race”. Drug cheats will be named and shamed, says Australian Olympic chief This article is more than 4 years old Australia’s chef de mission Kitty Chiller sets out hardline stance A third member of the men's sprint relay teams that represented Australia on the track at the London Olympics and the world championships in 2011 has been banned for drug code violations.But the athletes had been banned for administrative sloppiness or carelessness and were plainly not drug cheats, Athletics Australia president David Grace, QC, said. Sign up to receive our Breaking News Alerts and Editor's Daily Headlines featuring the best local news and stories.He’s got muscles on his muscles. This was what a weightlifter once told me, referring to a Hunter-based professional sportsman. At the elite level, sport is about winning at any cost. There was the famous case of 100-metre sprinter Ben Johnson, who was stripped of his gold medal at the Seoul Olympics in 1988, after testing positive for anabolic steroids. It was described as the “biggest drug story in Olympic history”. An athlete failing to properly lodge their whereabouts, or not being where they say they will be at a certain time and place, constitutes a breach.Three whereabouts breaches or missed drug tests in an 18-month period (it will be cut to a 12-month period next year) are treated the same as having returned a positive result and an athlete is banned for between 12 months and two years.Grace again highlighted the difference between the way athletes from Olympic sports were treated under the WADA code with the way professional sports like AFL were treated.Last year, the Western Bulldogs failed to properly lodge whereabouts documents for their players and the club was given a small fine. Australia has been at the forefront in the fight against doping in sport. Together they have invested the $1.6M of start-up funding required to begin commercialising this technology.“InsituGen’s immediate pathway lies in the horse racing industry, with commercial testing in New Zealand and Australia before supplying official operators come the 2021 autumn and spring carnivals. It's not as if they have not been drug tested, they have been drug tested umpteen times each one of them, but in between each one of those tests they have missed a drug test or missed a whereabouts listing," Grace said. There have been doping cheats in sport before Johnson and since. But this, of course, is irrational.At the elite level, sport is about winning at any cost. Comments +28. Our test quickly identifies any form of anabolic steroid in an athlete’s system, even if it is an unknown compound. Ross, the third-fastest Australian on record, will find out the length of his ban in May but knows it will be between 12 months and two years.A third sprinter, Matt Davies, was banned in December last year for two years for recording a positive result to a stimulant found in a supplement.Ross and Alozie represented Australia in the relay at the London Olympics while Alozie and Davies were in the relay together at the world championships in Daegu, South Korea, in 2011. In a recent Four Corners documentary, doubt was cast over whether 100-metre Jamaican sprinter and world record holder Usain Bolt was clean. But did anyone believe that? No individual player was banned. But did anyone believe that?There was the famous case of 100-metre sprinter Ben Johnson, who was stripped of his gold medal at the Seoul Olympics in 1988, after testing positive for anabolic steroids. It's time for Australia to stop pointing the finger at foreign drug cheats while going soft on home-grown heroes, world doping chief Dick Pound tells Glenda Korporaal `AUSTRALIA is now under the microscope," declares Dick Pound, the chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency. We want to believe sport can transcend the troubles of other human activities. It's our obligation under the ASADA that our athletes are compliant. "When an athlete misses whereabouts, it's invariably not a case that you are taking drugs [the athletes are still drug tested], it is because of carelessness or negligence," Grace said.Bannister was banned last year for missing three drug tests, despite one of those missed tests occurring when the hotel he was staying in under an Athletics Australia group booking did not know he was still staying there.Michael Gleeson is an award-winning senior sports writer specialising in AFL and athletics.Three Australian sprinters banned for drug breaches AS the Essendon crisis reaches its conclusion and another high profile drug cheat in American baseball star Alex Rodriguez is exposed, here's a list of notorious drug cheats in sport. Or is there more to it?Speaking about drugs in football in 2013, former Leeds and England defender Danny Mills (who did not take banned drugs) said: “The game now is of such high intensity that you have to be able to compete as a top athlete at the highest level, so you’ll do almost anything”.