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By Trent Pollard

Performance enhancing drugs. Need we say more? That is the question.

This talking point has tainted everything about these Olympic Games, and is bringing the world’s biggest sporting event in to disrepute.

Watch one event, one news piece, one highlight reel. Get on Twitter, Facebook and the rest, you can’t avoid hearing about it.

The fact that #lancearmstrong is still a very wealthy man tells you how much USA cares about #doping when it is one of their own. #Rio2016

— Harry Leslie Smith (@Harryslaststand) 9 August 2016

And what is it all for? Where is this conversation getting us? Is talking about it achieving anything?

At this stage, we have gone nowhere…apart from the rather humorous tweets.

Those who would like to chime in on the problem and point the finger, offer us a solution. If you take no interest in that option, lets find something else to talk about.

U.S. swimmer shows more courage than I.O.C on doping https://t.co/D1rzK73Sqz #TheLead

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) 10 August 2016

We know that the process and management of positive tested athletes is a shambles.

Immediately after winning silver in the road cycling race , Russian Olga Zabelinskaya admitted that on the eve of the games, she was set to fly home after being told that she could not compete at these Olympics because of a previous ban.

Olympic historian David Wallachinsky on the ABC’s program 7:30 was dead accurate when discussing the matter.

Wallachinsky said “The only way that you are going to get a clean Olympics is if the athletes realise that no matter what they do, over the next 10 years, you’re going to get caught… I can’t wait till 2024 so we can find out who won the gold medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics.”

IOC sanctions four athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008 and London 2012 https://t.co/S2RA0AGkbf pic.twitter.com/g9NZGwIFLv

— IOC MEDIA (@iocmedia) 9 August 2016