Drugs storm in a teacup

Not so much a storm in a teacup as a hurricane in a thimble, the "’drugs in sport’ enquiry — or at least what we can glean from the hyperbolic media coverage — doesn’t seem to be delivering what was promised at the breathless media conference to announce it.

 

Richard Cooke writes in The Monthly:

 

More than two months have passed since the release of the ACC’s report into organised crime and drugs, the ‘darkest day in Australian sport’, a date that now seems to signify little more than the start of a fishing expedition.

 

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…the ‘150 players’ from two codes to be interviewed? A number fabricated by an executive ‘under pressure’.

 

At least publicly, the whole exercise is beginning to look like an opportunity for Stephen Dank to serialise his text message library and the AFL, at least, is sticking closely to its ‘zero-tolerance’ policy of guilt by association rather than by evidence.

 

It may be that there are some substantive outcomes of the enquiry, but the echoes of the Salem witch trials are becoming louder and louder.