7 February 2013 last updated at 10:02 GMT Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare: ' the conclusions will be Australian Sports fans ' disgust
The use of banned substances in sport Australian Professional is "generalized", a lengthy investigation found.
The Australian Crime Commission (ACC) said that scientists, technicians and support staff were involved in the supply of drugs through various sporting codes, without naming any individuals.
In some cases, the drugs were supplied by organized crime syndicates, he said.
Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare said the findings were "shocking and disgusting Australian Sports fans".
The President of the World Anti-Doping Agency, John Fahey, described them as "alarming", but not a surprise.
In announcing the results at a news conference in Canberra, Mr Clare said that "several athletes from various sports codes big Australian clubs are suspected of currently using or having used previously peptides potentially constitute anti-doping rule violation".
"It's cheating, but it's worse than that, it is cheating with the help of criminals," he said.
The BBC's Nick Bryant in Australia says that, in a nation of sports lovers such as Australia, the report's impact was enormous.
With fans wondering what sportsmen and women can be trusted, it is a black day for Brazilian sport, he adds.
' We get you ' Continue reading the main storyAustralia loves sport and hates to fraud, and these allegations offend a strong, deep-rooted sense of fair play. Australians love to win, for sure, but not at all costs. Aussie rules, one of the country's most popular sports, players with disciplinary offences are not even considered for the game's highest honor, the Brownlow Medal. And the fans the way he.
Traditionally, the sport has been an arena where Australia designed on the world stage. There is great pride in how a nation of just 23 million people enjoys much success per inhabitant. If your sports reputation is tarnished, then so too is its global reputation. That said, two sporting codes under particularly close rugby league, Aussie rules (AFL) and control (NRL) doesn't have much of a profile.
Also, Australia has been at the forefront of efforts of international efforts to contain the doping. The Sydney Olympics of 2000, for example, were billed as the "clean" games. The news that doping is "widespread" and that is a link to organized crime, so it is shocking.
In the absence of more specific details about which athletes, teams and sports are affected, fans also were asking elite athletes can rely on.
Had names, clubs and sporting codes have been attached to these allegations, the report released publicly to the Australian Crime Commission presumably would have been even more devastating (a classified report prepared by the ACC apparently contains them). Even without these details very important, some are calling this black day in the history of sports in the country.
In its report, the Committee said that looked at the use of a new form of PIEDs (performance and image enhancing drugs) known as peptides and hormones, which provide effects similar to anabolic steroids."Despite being prohibited substances in professional sport, peptides and hormones are being used by professional athletes, in Australia, facilitated by sports scientists, coaches and high-performance sports team," he said.
"Widespread use of these substances has been identified or suspected by ACC, a number of sporting codes in Australia.
The use of illicit drugs in some sports were thought to be "significantly higher" than official statistics showed, he added.
In some cases, players had been administered with drugs not yet approved for human use, the report said.
The Commission concluded that the organized crime syndicates were involved in the distribution of banned substances-something Mr Clare, the Minister of Home Affairs, called particularly serious.
"Links between organized crime and exposed by players, for players in danger of being co-opted by match-fixing and this investigation has identified a possible example of what and who is currently under investigation," he said.
Criminal investigations are taking place because the report does not go into detail, our correspondent says.
Aussie rules Australian Football League (AFL) and the National Rugby League (NRL) said that they are already working with the Commission.
Sports Minister Kate Lundy: "If you want to cheat, we will catch you""We have worked with the Commission of crime in the last week or so and information came forward to NRL specifically affecting more than one player and more than a club, Australian Rugby League Committee Chief Dave Smith said.
Earlier this week AFL Club Essendon has asked the anti-doping authorities of Australia to investigate supplements fed to players last season.
Sports Minister Kate Lundy said sports organizations would be encouraged to establish "integrity" and enveloping the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency and law enforcement to eradicate the problems.
"If you want to cheat, we will catch you, if you want to fix a game, we will catch you," said Ms Lundy.
The report said they were "clear Parallels" between what had been discovered in Australia and the US anti-doping Agency dishonored research Tour de France cyclist Lance Armstrong.
He said that the links underlined "the trans-national threat of doping for professional sport".
"The difference is that the current threat is Australian, crosses the sporting codes and is evolving," he concluded.
Mr Fahey, himself a Australian politician, said he had found the report alarming and that it showed "how deep this problem is".
"But I have to say I'm not surprised. He "seems to be a story in sport that you will solve these problems only when something surfaces and will try to avoid it until that time, and that was the case in the Olympic movement with doping, told ABC News in Australia.
"This was the case in cycling, what we've seen so much in recent times, and now unfortunately is the case seems here in Australia."
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