Essendon face AFL probe/Players found Guilty by CAS

[one-eyed]

Biochemist Shane Charter plans to detail alleged peptides regimen at Essendon

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/afl/more-news/biochemist-shane-charter-plans-to-detail-alleged-peptides-regimen-at-essendon/story-e6frf9jf-1226633445417
and
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/biochemist-to-tell-all-on-peptides-20130501-2itcq.html


ESSENDON captain Jobe Watson could keep his Brownlow Medal at the discretion of an AFL tribunal, even if he was found guilty of taking a banned substance.

And Bombers players could serve six-month bans without missing a single match under guidelines stipulated in the World Anti-Doping Agency code.

If Watson was found guilty of using the banned anti-obesity drug AOD-9604, but successfully argued for a reduction of the standard two-year ban, additional penalties would be at the discretion of a specially convened AFL tribunal.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/afl/teams/essendon-captain-jobe-watson-could-keep-his-brownlow-medal/story-e6frf9l6-1226633411643

[one-eyed]

Two Carlton Football Club officials participated in a secret spying operation targeting the chemist who supplied Essendon's controversial supplement program.

The two officials from the Blues' high-performance unit secretly recorded South Yarra chemist Nima Alavi - with one of the Carlton officials wearing a hidden wire - after Carlton was badly defeated by the Bombers early last season.

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In other developments related to the doping scandal, Fairfax Media has learnt further details about a 2012 invoice that was discovered at Essendon and that lists the drug Hexarelin, which is a human-growth-hormone-releasing peptide banned by doping authorities since 2004. Fairfax Media reported on Saturday that Essendon had recently discovered the invoice, which has been handed to the AFL and doping investigators.

The Hexarelin invoice was sent to the club by Mr Alavi during the 2012 season and paid for by the club. Some time later, Mr Dank alerted the club that he had not ordered the Hexarelin listed on the invoice. After the mistake was discovered, Mr Alavi refunded the Hexarelin payment in the form of a credit that the club could use to buy other supplements.

The details around the invoice have positive and negative consequences for the Bombers. Although they confirm Mr Dank's public statement that he never used HGH-releasing peptides on players, they suggest the club's internal governance may have been so lax as to allow a banned drug to be paid for with few or no questions asked.

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In 2012, Mr Dank and Essendon fitness coach Dean Robinson also produced forms for the players to sign that stated that AOD9604 was WADA-compliant. Last month, WADA specifically banned AOD9604 under rule S0.

Efforts to penalise Bombers' players for using AOD9604 are likely to face legal challenges because the players were assured that it was WADA-compliant and no senior Essendon staff thought to get a second opinion.

The drug is also approved for cosmetic use in Australia and may be used in some circumstances if obtained through a compounding chemist.

Sources aware of the efforts by some at Essendon to claim that they were duped by Mr Dank into using AOD9604 have said that although he presented what appeared to be a definitive and persuasive case that the drug was not banned, senior Bomber officials should still have conducted their own due diligence before exposing their players to potentially banned or harmful supplements.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/blues-pair-secretly-taped-chemist-20130501-2itgt.html#ixzz2S3UT2rQo

[dwaino]

 

You would reckon if they were suspended while the investigation was on going then this would all be wrapped up quick smart.

[Judge Roughneck]

So move and Essen Don get done yet he keeps medal and players are banned when there isn't games on.

Gee that'd be a fai outcome.

Biochemist Shane Charter plans to detail alleged peptides regimen at Essendon

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/afl/more-news/biochemist-shane-charter-plans-to-detail-alleged-peptides-regimen-at-essendon/story-e6frf9jf-1226633445417
and
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/biochemist-to-tell-all-on-peptides-20130501-2itcq.html


ESSENDON captain Jobe Watson could keep his Brownlow Medal at the discretion of an AFL tribunal, even if he was found guilty of taking a banned substance.

And Bombers players could serve six-month bans without missing a single match under guidelines stipulated in the World Anti-Doping Agency code.

If Watson was found guilty of using the banned anti-obesity drug AOD-9604, but successfully argued for a reduction of the standard two-year ban, additional penalties would be at the discretion of a specially convened AFL tribunal.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/afl/teams/essendon-captain-jobe-watson-could-keep-his-brownlow-medal/story-e6frf9l6-1226633411643

[Hellenic Tiger]

Yep last night they were saying on radio that the penalties at this stage are more likely to be club sanctions rather than player sanctions such as premiership points, and draft participation.
For what that is worth.

[one-eyed]

Ch 7 news tonight said KIA has/had threatened to pull their major sponsorship with the Bombers but apparently Demetriou has stepped in to "save the day".

[gerkin greg]

crock 

[WilliamPowell]

Ch 7 news tonight said KIA has/had threatened to pull their major sponsorship with the Bombers but apparently Demetriou has stepped in to "save the day".

If that is true it is an utter disgrace

[one-eyed]

According to Barrett, the 'Weapon' is going to take out an injunction preventing the Ziggy report being released. So the Ziggy report is likely to be delayed long-term from being made public and may not be released until after the final ASADA findings are made public later on in the year.

[one-eyed]

Ch 7 news tonight said KIA has/had threatened to pull their major sponsorship with the Bombers but apparently Demetriou has stepped in to "save the day".

If that is true it is an utter disgrace

Apparently Demetriou confirmed it's true himself WP ...

Demetriou calls Essendon sponsor

  Jake Niall
    The Age
    May 3, 2013

AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou phoned Essendon's major sponsor Kia to support the club in the wake of the supplements scandal.

Demetriou confirmed he had phoned the head of Kia's Australian operations, Charlie Kim, to give the company the ''code perspective'' and assure it that the Bombers were co-operating with the investigation and were being fully transparent.

Demetriou said he informed Kia that the Dons were ''co-operating in every way they can, that they're not hiding anything.''

''It's always good hearing the code's view,'' said Demetriou, who said he had ''taken it upon myself'' to call the company and give the league's position.

Demetriou contacted Kia some weeks ago, after the club announced it had gone to the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority over concerns that it might have used substances that were not compliant with World Anti-Doping Agency rules.

Demetriou was in a conversation with Essendon chairman David Evans when he volunteered to make contact with Kia, which signed a five-year deal to be the Bombers' major sponsor late in 2011.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/demetriou-calls-essendon-sponsor-20130502-2ivz2.html#ixzz2S9EtJBPQ

[one-eyed]

Former Olympic coach Nic Bideau says drug effects would linger if Essendon took them

    Jon Ralph
    From: Herald Sun
    May 03, 2013

ESSENDON would still be enjoying the benefits of performance-enhancing drugs if players did take illegal supplements last season, according to a leading athletics expert.

Nic Bideau, who managed Olympian Cathy Freeman and coached Craig Mottram, says he has no doubt there would be residual benefits.

Bideau told the Herald Sun any use of illegal drugs would improve muscle strength, which could stay with players.

"If you have a really good training year, it helps you forever or until you start to decline," Bideau said.

"It is building a base layer upon layer upon layer. It's like pages in a phone book.

"It is foundation you are trying to build. It takes people two or three years to become a fit league footballer, and if you add another layer on, it has to help."

The medical and sports science industries are divided on any long-lasting benefits to Essendon.

Former St Kilda doctor Rohan White yesterday said many peptides and supplements were fast-acting and quickly flushed from the system.

The AFL Medical Officers Association associate would not comment on Essendon's players, but said many supplements had only short-term benefits.

"If any club or player used supplements last year it would be a pretty long bow to draw to say they were still helping. Many supplements would be excreted from the system quite quickly and the benefits would be very short-term," White said.

But one AFL sports science expert, speaking on condition of anonymity, said any illegal substance used at any time had to have future benefits.

"If anyone is taking performance-enhancing drugs, the benefits of that are cumulative. You have been able to train at a higher level and the drug might be out of your system, but the training effect is still there," he said.

"It increases muscle bulk and muscle strength and muscle endurance, and you push on from there.

"It would be naive to think it wouldn't have a performance benefit a year on."

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/afl/teams/former-olympic-coach-nic-bideau-says-drug-effects-would-linger-if-essendon-took-them/story-e6frf9l6-1226634210537

[one-eyed]

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has moved to shoot down Stephen Dank's claim that he had its permission to use a banned substance.

The body has released what it says is a series of email exchanges with the controversial sports scientist regarding the anti-obesity drug AOD-9604.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/wada-emails-appear-to-debunk-dank-claims-on-antiobesity-drug-20130502-2iw37.html#ixzz2S9HUObnP

[Judge Roughneck]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/afl/tea...sendon-took-them/story-e6frf9l6-1226634210537

[gerkin greg]

watch the bombers dope up, up!

[tigs2011]

How are they not gone yet? You've got 3 weeks WADA or feel my wrath.