World 100m champion Justin Gatlin is at the centre of another doping scandal after members of his team offered to illegally supply performance-enhancing drugs.
Gatlin and his team were unveiled by an investigation by The Telegrah to be offering to provide prescriptions in a false name and smuggle them into the United States.
Undercover reporters visited Gatlin's Florida training camp looking to receive supplements for an actor training for a film.
Gatlin's coach, former Olympic gold medallist Dennis Mitchell, and an athletics agent offered to supply and administer testosterone and human growth hormone for the actor, with the products provided via a doctor in Austria; the total fee for the project would cost NZ$357,000.
Mitchell and the agent, Robert Wagner, were also secretly recorded claiming doping in sport was still widespread as well as describing ways where doping tests could be avoided.
Wagner claimed that Gatlin had himself been taking PEDs - an accusation Gatlin has since strongly denied in a statement.
Gatlin's legal representatives also announced this morning that Mitchell had since been fired and offered five years of testing as proof he was clean.
The 35-year-old was booed earlier this year in London after he beat fan favourite Usain Bolt in his final competitive race at the World Championships.
The American sprinter is a polarising figure in world athletics after he received a two year ban in 2001 when he tested positive for amphetamines.
He was then given an eight year ban in 2006 after receiving a positive doping test but but was reduced to four years in 2007.
Gatlin denied any knowledge of taking any banned substances in both instances.
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