Niner-turned-Olympic hopeful Jarryd Hayne's dream of competing for Fiji's rugby sevens in Rio has been turned into a political football by at least one anti-doping advocate.
Hayne is inside the six-month window in which Olympic athletes typically must be in a registered drug-testing protocol ahead of competition, Richard Ings, the former head of the Australian Sports Doping Authority, pointed out.
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Worse, Ings tweeted Sunday, the "NFL is PED badlands," the result being there should be "no chance" of Hayne getting a reduction of the required six months in the registered testing pool.