That   February 2013 "darkest day" in Australian sport - where scores of Essendon AFL players and Cronulla Sharks rugby league players were revealed to have been injected with various supplements - has ensured Australia will be included on the World Anti-Doping Agency ranking list of doping countries. 
Yet despite the huge numbers of official transgressions that emanated from the supplements saga - 34 Essendon players and 12 Cronulla players - Australia is nowhere near the worst drugs offender. That tag belongs to Russia.
WADA has released its 2013 drugs figures, detailing how many offenders were sanctioned, and in some cases, let off, in a breakdown of countries. It is the latest global analysis available, with the 2014 figures due out later this year.
Most of the Stephen Dank-related doping cases aren't even listed on the 2013 list, but will be included in figures for later years.
Still, during 2013, Australia recorded 35 drugs offences, mainly in bodybuilding and rugby (which includes both union and league). According to the WADA figures, Australia's positive drug tests were in aquatics (two cases), athletics (three), AFL (three), motorsports (one), baseball (one), bodybuilding (seven), bowling (one), boxing (one), cycling (two), netball (one), powerlifting (four), rugby (six), triathlon (one), weightlifting (one) and wrestling (one).
Based on the figures, Australia is on par with China - which had 34 positive drugs cases in 2013, of which nine were from athletics - and Olympic host country Brazil with 36, of which 10 were footballers. However, there was no data available to show how many drug tests were done in each country, and that would vary wildly depending on the reliability, or existence of, an independent local anti-doping agency.
Some of the countries that might be considered highly doped are obvious, others not so. Some two years before the IAAF doping scandal enveloped Russia threatening the participation of its athletes at the Rio Olympics, the country had the dubious title as the top ranked doping country.
Russia had 225 drugs cases, of which 42 were in track and field, 14 in swimming, 35 in powerlifting, 26 in weightlifting, 32 in wrestling and 19 in cycling. Turkey also transgressed with a total of 188 drugs cases. Fifty-three of the cases were from athletics.
France had 108, mainly from cycling, weightlifting and athletics. Then there was India with 95 cases, including 30 from athletics, Belgium with 94 including 16 cyclists, Italy with 83 cases, including 36 cyclists and Spain's 67 cases, of which 15 were in triathlon and 14 in cycling.
Rounding out other countries that were above Australia are Poland (55), Kazakhstan (47), South Africa (46), US (43) and Portugal (40). In all, 207,513 samples were analysed by WADA-accredited laboratories of which 2540 were adverse findings, nearly all from urine tests. Only three blood tests were upheld and sanctioned.
In total, 1687 of the cases resulted in sanctions, while others were dismissed because the athlete had a valid therapeutic use exemption or had been found no case to answer. The Essendon players appealing their suspension might be interested to know that in only a small number of cases - less than 4 per cent - the athlete exonerated.RUSSIAN SWIMMERS TESTED P35