I want to put a hypothetical situation to you. Imagine you've worked for a company since you were a teenager. You work your butt off to try and improve, because the better you are the more money you will earn. Payment is sporadic and you have to travel often. Other people rise to the top faster than you, but you soldier on.

Then one day you find out a worker at the company has been caught cheating the system. Let's say it was insider trading. The media and public become interested in the case, but your bosses refuse to tell the media [and public] who the culprit is, although they know, for legal reasons.

For some inexplicible reason the media interest dies down quickly. Therefore the public interest dies down. But, due to some events in the past you are one of the names on the suspect list and have to endure people looking at you sideways. You know it isn't you, your bosses know it isn't you, but the public don't.

This is a real situation, involving the NZ Olympic Committee and NZ olympians. You may remember reports surfaced a wee while ago about an NZ olympian failing a drugs test?

I am not going to identify who the athlete was, what event they are involved with or their sex, and will not tolerate any attempts by commenters to try to.

My questions are; Is this fair on our athletes, particularly those who have had run-ins with the media and law in the past, when it isn't them? How would you feel in this situation? Should the athlete 'come clean' themselves? And finally, does this reflect poorly on the country, as it was one of our athletes which was sent to the games, representing us on the international stage?

Here's the New Zealand team uniform for the Beijing Olympics.

Big white buttons and a pocket logo straight out of 1984. New Zealand, we're set for the LA Olympics.

Well this is more...sporty? Still the same logo though. But, cut the shorts off a bit and lengthen the singlet and voila! Wal Footrot.

And finally, the coup de gras (or "cup of grass")

CHOICE ONE!