Doping at your doorstep: The next Olympic drug crisis could be coming through the mail

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The next Olympic doping scandal could be delivered right to your doorstep.

A trove of so-called research chemicals known as peptides , many of them banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency and some not approved for human use in the United States, are available with the simple click of a button through online retailers. One seller is Amazon. Another is Alibaba, a sponsor of the International Olympic Committee.

The easy availability of the drugs combined with their hard-to-detect nature is precisely the toxic combination doping regulators and Olympic officials are trying to avoid. With the Milan Cortina Games just two months away, they are hoping to break a string of scandals involving the Russians and Chinese that have disrupted the Games, both summer an