Ripped from the headlines, this is the story of an undercover narcotics agent.

The agent was tasked by the U.S. Government to help bust a drug ring involving several high-profile celebrity users. The agent secretly recorded phone calls and provided other evidence to the authorities, including evidence implicating his own friends and associates. Yesterday, the feds announced that they had cracked the case, and that as a result of the agent’s work, the ring has been broken.

But here’s the twist. The undercover narcotics agent is an Olympic gold medalist named Justin Gatlin, and the drugs involved are steroids. In an effort to root out drug use in track and field, the U.S. Government and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) used Gatlin as a stool pigeon to inform on his former coach Trevor Graham and his former teammate Antonio Pettigrew. Yesterday, Pettigrew admitted to long-term steroid use (though he had passed numerous tests throughout his career), and Graham is facing a felony charge for lying under oath. Jail time is going to be served and medals are going to be stripped, including the gold medal of the famed Michael Johnson, who won the 4X400 meter relay in 2000 at Sydney with Pettigrew. Meanwhile, Gatlin the stoolie is asking the IOC to allow him to compete this summer in Beijing. Nice.

You gotta wonder, what else is the government up to? Cripes, there’s no telling how many narcs are out there. Can an athlete trust the towel boy over at the swim complex? What about the lunch lady at the training center? And that guy who hands out the Ben-Gay always seemed a little suspicious…

Watch out Olympians, there are spies among you. And you don’t want to be on the next installment of “Law and Order: IOC”.