It seems like every week, sport and its integrity take another hit. Reporters Steve Hepburn and Rob van Royen go back over the past few years and find doping in athletics and corruption in Fifa are not the only scandals around sport.
Lance Armstrong
Serial denier.
Won seven Tour de France titles but was always linked to drugs.
Finally, in 2012, decided not to contest drug charges brought against him.
Then did a super-soft interview with Oprah Winfrey, admitted he cheated because everyone else was doing it.
Melbourne Storm
One must wonder how the Storm thought it could get away with such blatant disregard of the salary cap.
Yet somehow it did for a good while.
The likes of Billy Slater and Cameron Smith pleaded ignorance and were believed.
NRL didn't fall for it and stripped titles and cash.
Tiger Woods
It was all going so well for Tiger Woods until he crashed into a fire hydrant outside his home in late 2009.
That did not seem out of the ordinary.
What followed was.
Woods was revealed to be a rampant womaniser with seemingly a girl in every port.
Never been the same player.
NZ football
New Zealand has not had that many well-known footballers.
But, unfortunately, Deklan Wynne is going to be one.
Played in Olympic qualifying tournament when, according to overseas football bosses, he was ineligible.
New Zealand was kicked out the tournament and is still waiting to see whether the punishment is wet bus ticket-like or total annihilation of the sport.
Probably somewhere in between.
Bloodgate
One wink cost jobs, careers and integrity for many.
Harlequins winger Tom Williams left the field in a vital cup match in 2009 to allow a kicker back on.
He was bleeding from the mouth and when he left the field did a faint wink.
That wink was because a medic had deliberately cut his lip and inserted a blood capsule.
Harlequins lost, coach was banned and chairman quit.
Australian swimmers
The Australian 4x100m men's freestyle swimming team was a raging hot favourite for gold in London in 2012.
Bombed out badly in finishing fourth.
Then talk surfaced of boozing and standover tactics.
An inquiry found team members had used drug Stilnox, a drug to cure insomnia, in a bonding session before the Games.
Pamela
French tennis player Richard Gasquet was banned for three months for cocaine found in his system after a drug test.
He blamed it on kissing a girl named Pamela at a Miami night club.
Was said he had kissed her at least seven times.
Took the punishment on the chin and is still playing.
Whereabouts of Pamela is unknown.
Caster Semenya
A he or a she?
Won gold in 800m at 2009 World championships but rumours surfaced she was a hermaphrodite and had elevated testosterone levels.
She was subjected to gender testing in 2010, but cleared to compete the same year.
She won silver at the London 2012 Olympics.
Deflategate
The New England Patriots were accused of tampering with the pressure of footballs following a playoff win against the Indianapolis Colts in January.
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was fined and suspended for four games for instructing team equipment managers to deflate the balls, making them easier to throw and catch.
Brady successfully appealed the ban and the Patriots are unbeaten this season.
Chris Cairns
From hero to zero?
Once idolised by young cricket fans growing up, Cairns' name is now mud after he allegedly tried to manipulate games when he captained the Chandigarh Lions in the Indian Premier League.
Denied everything, and successfully sued former Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi for a defamatory Twitter post in 2010.
However, Cairns is now in court on perjury charges stemming from that trial and will know his fate probably before Christmas.
