The day touted to be the "blackest day in Australian sports" may just turn out to be just gray, after all.

The allegation last February 7, 2013 by Richard Ings, a former director of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority(ASADA), that there is rampant doping and cheating in major Australian sports has still not moved the needle even after the backing of the chiefs of major sports into the investigation. Nevertheless, Ings stands by his statement that has been majorly regarded elsewhere as purely overblown.

Ings is now pressuring the ASADA, being the main face when the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) bared its report on corruption, organized crime and drugs in sports, to submit to the public any meaningful update on the progress of its investigations.

The former ASDA chief said that ASADA should have clarified a year ago that the anti-doping authority's response to the ACC's task was only the beginning. He was expecting that at the time of the press conference announcing the ACC report, the ASADA already had in its hands sufficient evidence of infractions of anti-doping rules and it was ready to hand out sanctions to people who had broken the rules. This was never the case as the investigation dragged on with just a number of personnel implicated in the controversy. ASADA has issued just one infraction notice, to a Canberra player.

With Ings yet again bringing into the limelight the controversy, some other key sports personnel and opinion makers have weighed in on Ings' observations.

Darren Kane, a sports lawyer, speaking on the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority investigation pointed out that the investigation merely used sports as a Trojan horse and as a diversion to get the floundering government off the front page. He stressed that the shrouded objective to use sport as a distraction from more important issues is a disgraceful act.

More than a year removed from the blackest day, Richard Ings is still grasping at straws and pressuring the agency to produce results. In the meantime, the delay in the publication of the results as well as the minimal evidence produced by a financially challenged ASADA has only left the observing public to wonder if the blackest day may just be gray or even white all along.