Is retired 800m female runner Maria de Lurdes Mutola guilty, too, of something?
The 39-year-old from Mozambique, born in Maputo to assume the nickname of "The Maputo Express", competed at six Olympic Games. She is a three-time world champion in the 800m race and a one-time Sydney Olympic gold medallist.
The vitriolic tribe would have convened to sharpen its daggers because Mutola was helping coach South African 800m runner Caster Semenya for the London Olympics.
Semenya had both male and female sex organs and testosterone levels three times higher than typically found in women.
After much deliberation and humiliation she was handed the 2008 Olympic gold medal amid calls to redefining boundaries in sport to determine what level of hormones constitute a woman.
Chinese Olympic gold medallist Ye Shiwen, 16, raised eyebrows in London three weeks ago when she clocked a world-record time of 4m 28.43s in the 400m women's medley - even faster than the men's champion, Ryan Lochte, in the final 100m of freestyle - to beat pre-race favourites.
Tests have failed to show she is a drug cheat although it didn't stop rival competitors, coaches and the media casting aspersions on her character before the test-tube results were back from the laboratory.
Ditto retired American cycling champion Lance Armstrong because, despite claims and counter-claims, only one thing will stand when the smoke dissipates - tangible evidence.
If one is to purely act on the instincts of the lynch mob then why aren't we questioning how sportsmen and sportswomen who looked like lean-and-mean greyhounds at the cusp of their professional careers have over a few years metamorphosed into bulging bears based purely on photos from "then" and "now".
Ostapchuk's two positive drug tests for anabolic steroid metenolone are obviously damning and further investigation is warranted.
But is it at this juncture conclusive? It does raise more questions than answers.
How can a woman competing in several meetings in the European circuit post-London - and eclipsing our Valerie Adams - didn't test positive for anything can suddenly return positive tests for a primitive steroid after winning gold?
If she was using sophisticated masking agents to screen drug use, then the question is: What went wrong?
The reality is the pharmacists are a country mile ahead of the doping police.
In fact, news from the London Games revealed the blood and urine samples were kept in the same refrigerator as lunch and soft drinks for van drivers.
Of course, if Ostapchuk is proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt she should be totally banned from competing. No namby-pamby nonsense about two-year bans amid pleas of ignorance or conspiracy.
Life bans for robbing another competitor's dreams, hopes and aspirations, not to mention a potential lucrative career from sponsorship and endorsements.
Besides, tainted athletes gain and retain an unfair advantage from building muscles with banned substances.
I said before the Olympics it'll always be issues surrounding the action in the sporting arena that will make the Games interesting.
I rest my case.
Ostapchuk aside, one must not lose sight of what added to Adams' anguish before she got out to the shotput ring. Unlike doping, administrative blunders are avoidable.
