Interesting choice of words, as there have been professional cyclists who doped, particularly early on with EPO blood doping, and they were literally left for dead, maybe not at the bottom of the Alps, but nevertheless, DEAD. As in carked it, deceased, no longer with us. When peanuts like Sam Newman suggest that athletes should be allowed to take whatever they like, what he fails to appreciate is the risk to life that this entails. Imagine being a pro cyclist who has to set an alarm every two hours to wake up and walk around to keep your circulation working, because if you slept an 8 hour night, your artificially thickened blood would block your heart and you would never reawaken. This is why there is a need for WADA and ASADA. If you left policing of a drug code to the AFL, there would be a never ending series of negotiated outcomes where no player is ever found guilty of a drug offence, but many are slapped on the wrist for governance issues. Meanwhile, no-one cares about the players' health (especially not the players' association) and the obvious worst case scenario sees an AFL player die from a dodgy cocktail of supplements. The issue of drugs in sport is not just about cheating and gaining unfair advantage. It is about protecting the health of people not quite smart enough to realise how much harm they are doing to themselves. And if you think that doesn't matter, then perhaps we dispose of the seatbelt and motorcycle helmet laws too.