Great money spinner for ASADA. The petty cash the tin will always be full. I see that everyone’s governance is in hand and all the club’s learned from Essendon’s supplement folly, not.
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The whereabouts scenario is the biggest load of ■■■■ and an invasion of players privacy IMO.
There has to be a better way that would make it easier on all parties.
Something like ASADA calling the club during preseason/competition to ensure player made available at club/their home if random testing to occur at some point that day.
And out of season the player ensuring they are contactable in Australia and only advising if they going overseas in their holidays.
Players… Sorry boys going on safari for our holidays. AADA Where? Players…Asia, Africa, anywhere where there are elephants, send us a smoke signal. ASADA This isn’t going to work for us, I think we have to put a GPS chip in your arm so we know where you are at all times, while you are competing. When you retire we’ll remove it at your expense.
Meant to be a joke but probably is where WADA are heading in the future.
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So when a player gets delisted and then re-rookies (Smack, Eades, etc) are they outside of WADA’s reach? Or does being put on the ‘permission to train list’ make players subject to the code?
Wada code applies to any organised sport that it is linked to .That is why Stants couldn’t play in any golf club comps even at his local club.They were going to test players at a local club that Dank was doing a speaking GIG at.
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So what if you’re playing for Some horse ■■■■ team in Colac. Do you have to ring ASADA if you’re not training?
Nah, ASADA are full of ■■■■■.
Can tell you for a fact the SANFL doesn’t even get tested bugger all and despite their threats to test country footy leagues there has not been one person tested in my comp and half the U18’s would be on illegal supplements
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The clubs are responsible for collating whereabouts. Just about every major AFL club has been picked up for technical breaches. The AFL determines the fine and pockets the cash. So, if a coach calls off training or a player calls in sick and they forget to tell the poor club flog responsible for notifying the AFL ( or the flog is uncontactable) , that is a breach of the AFL Code on the part of the club ( fortunately not the player). The AFL must have its spies everywhere to uncover those breaches.
If an athlete misses three tests , they get suspended under WADA rules. Some European athletes have taken up the onerousness of the whereabouts rule in the European Court of Human Rights.
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Farkin Hell!!
Was going to call in sick to work tomorrow, do I call ASADA first to let them know before I call my boss?
Seriously though, I can’t help but feel that what has been happening these past four years, or longer even, is that slowly everyones rights and liberties are being eroded and what is happening with WADA and athletes rights around the world at the moment is a test to see how governments can actually implement and get away taking them away without anyone noticing until it’s too late.
Just my little bit of paranoid, conspiracy theory bullshit for tonight but it does make you think though.
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It was pure coincidence that the first local club ASADA visited was the one where Dean Wallis invited Dank to speak. And also coincidence that the only VFL game I’ve seen them at was the debut of Tom Wallis, not long after.
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Correcto, here in the NEAFL i have never seen one test even though it’s always hinted at.
I know at least three guys that are on the gear, and there was a mountain who played for xxxx in premier division who had to be.
Other than proper gear, everyone takes pre game and post supps, as well as protein etc… no one looks at any stupid asada list.
Fantastic article!
for sure prisoners with tracking devices have more freedom than athletes why the hell do they put up with it ??
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Technically yes the rules apply to every athlete
and they always feed you that sanctimonious line …if you aren’t doing anything wrong then you will be okay…its all about control & we need to practice some civil disobedience en masse until they get the message that we will not be controlled …they make these stupid rules all the sucks in society go along with them because they are “for our own good” another phrase to watch out for …& remember it isn’t a conspiracy “theory” if it is actually happening it may be a conspiracy though…
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wouldn’t it be unfortunate if every club in australia contacted asada simultaneously and crashed their system?
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another one by Bruce Francis:
29 May 2017
The Hon Greg Hunt MP
Minister for Sport
Dear Minister @GregHuntMP,
CC: …@TurnbullMalcolm @TraceyLeeHolmes @athleteslawyer
Re: CAS Corruption
Yesterday, I provided you with irrefutable evidence that the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) panellists were inept and/or biased. Today, I am providing you with two examples of CAS corruption.
My dictionary defines corruption as “the process by which a word or expression is changed from its original state to one regarded as erroneous or debased”.
Background:
• March 9, 2012: Dank sent Hird an SMS advising that he would start intravenous treatments next week, and Thymosin.
• March 14, 2012: Dank sent Hird an SMS advising that the first 7 intravenous treatments done.
• March 21 2012: Dank sent Hird an SMS advising that ‘another 7 players were given intravenous treatments tonight’.
• March 26 2012: Dank sent Hird an email that detailed the names of 21 players whose intravenous treatments would be completed by Wednesday March 28, 2012. Invoices from Skinovate indicate that the intravenous injections were for vitamins B and C
• April 3, 2012: Dank sent an SMS to Hird advising him that we will be getting Solcoseryl
• April 3, 2012: Dank advised Dr Paul Spano, the proprietor of Skinovate [where the intravenous vitamin B and C supplements were given] that the players’ upcoming hyperbaric treatments at HyperMED ‘will be done with low dose naltrexone’.
• April 15 2012: Dr Spano sent Dank an SMS asking him to strongly reconsider the use of Melanotan as there is more downside than upside in its use and it was probably not helping the Essendon players.
• NB All of the above information was obtained from ASADA’s interim report.
Evidence of wrong-doing by CAS – Example 1:
Paragraph 126 of the Court of Arbitration for Sport Arbitral Award (the CAS ruling) states: ‘In a text message on 12 April 2012, Mr Dank told Mr Hird, "all … injections completed’, and a week later on 19 April 2012 wrote, "all injections completed for the week”’. NB CAS left out eight key words from the 19 April 2012 text which enabled it to conclude that the Thymosin injections had been completed.
My Comment:
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CAS concluded that Dank was referring to Thymosin on the basis of what Dank said in his 9 March 2012 SMS viz “he would start intravenous treatments next week, and Thymosin”.
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References from the interim report indicate that Dank was very open with what he was doing. He discussed a number of substances with non-Essendon people.
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Dank never indicated that he commenced administering Thymosin. He couldn’t commence administering either Thymomodulin or Thymosin Beta-4 until mid-May 2012 because neither was available until then.
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The CAS panel was corrupt in that it omitted eight words from the April 19, 2012 text, which enabled it to imply that the Thymosin injections had been completed. As it transpired, in that 19 April 2012 text, Dank was referring to Cerebrolysin injections administered by Dr Hooper at his HyperMED clinic. The 19 April 2012, text from Dank to Hird said: “This afternoon’s group went very well on hyperbaric. All injections completed for the week.”
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Invoices from HyperMED indicate that Dr Hooper administered 32 Cerebrolysin injections and 112 amino acid injections during this period. The amino acid, which was bought in the United States, not Mexico, as claimed by ASADA, was tested and did not contain any variety of Thymosin.
Example 2:
Paragraph 134, point (3) of the CAS decision states: On 11 January 2012, Mr Charter asked Mr Dank what peptide he needed next, to which the response was TB-4, quantity being 20 times 5ml vials, being confirmed the next day(my emphasis)
My Comment:
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It was corrupt and a lie for the CAS panel to state that Dank confirmed the next day that he wanted TB-4.
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The CAS panel quoted Dank’s 11 January response correctly. However, Dank retracted his order the next day and said that he wanted 20 vials of Thymosin (my emphasis) at 5ml per vial”.
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It is indisputable that the panel was claiming that the next day Stephen Dank said he wanted 20 vials of Thymosin Beta-4 [compounded] at 5ml per vial. The claim by the panel was a lie. Page 24 of ASADA’s interim report states that the next day “Mr Dank sent Charter an SMS seeking 20 vials of Thymosin (my emphasis) at 5ml per vial”.
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Dank claimed, as did senior ASADA official, Dr Stephen Watt in an email to WADA on 3 July 2012, that Thymosin was the generic name for the permitted Thymomodulin. Dank was quoted in the interim report using Thymosin on numerous occasions. He was only quoted using Thymosin Beta-4 once, and he retracted it the next day (12 January 2012)…
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It was duplicitous and unconscionable for the panel to combine a selection of words from the 11 and 12 January texts, with the corrupt use of a comma, to create the false impression that Dank confirmed on the following day that he wanted Thymosin Beta-4.
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Dank used the word Thymosin, not TB-4 (Thymosin Beta-4) as stated by the panel. This corrupt action alone by the panel should have be enough for someone in authority with a sense of decency to demand that the president of the Court of Arbitration for Sport declare this panel’s guilty finding null and void.
Minister, such corruption from a panel that included the former Chief Justice of the New South Wales Supreme Court demands that if you have any sense of decency, you will stop claiming that all allegations have been addressed, and you will create a Royal Commission that is tasked with investigating corruption and/or misconduct by the AFL, ASADA, WADA, CAS, VWA, ADRVP and the Ombudsman’s Office.
Yours faithfully
Bruce Francis
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Terrible news. Mr Demitriou’s firm Aquire Learning has been pinged in the Federal Court for unconscionable targeting of vulnerable students. Article from ABC website follows.
"Controversial vocational education broker Acquire Learning has been fined $4.5 million after the Federal Court found the company misled vulnerable students, by convincing them to sign up for courses they were unlikely to complete.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) took legal action against the company in 2015, alleging it had engaged in unconscionable conduct and breached consumer law with its telemarketing sales.
In August last year, the ABC’s 7.30 program revealed fresh claims that the company was contacting unemployed people who signed up for job alerts with Career One.
The brokers, who were paid $20.20 an hour plus incentives of cash and prizes, told students they could help find them their “dream job” in their local community, and that the Government would cover the costs.
Private training colleges would hire Acquire Learning, and pay them a cut of the Federal Government funding they would receive through the HECS-style loan scheme called VET FEE HELP.
Federal Court Justice Bernard Murphy said while the company only admitted to making calls to eight job seekers, it admitted that the calls were not made by rogue employees but were part of its core business model.
“I infer that these eight instances were not isolated examples,” he said.
“Acquire admits that it used undue pressure, unfair sales tactics, made false and misleading representations, did not provide an opportunity for the job applicants to consider the suitability of the courses being offered.”
Justice Murphy said the company did not tell applicants they would owe a debt to the Commonwealth.
He said Acquire Learning was “unconscionable” in its targeting of vulnerable students.
“Some job applicants disclosed that they had a learning disability including difficulty reading, mental illness, an inability to complete other education courses, or had only completed school to year seven or ten,” Justice Murphy said.
"One job applicant had difficulty understanding and speaking English.
“Notwithstanding this, Acquire induced them to enrol on the spot in a course which they were unlikely to be able to complete and/or which was unlikely to assist them to obtain better employment than if they had not enrolled.”
The company, which was chaired until recently by former AFL head Andrew Demetriou, went into voluntary administration earlier this month.
It was also a major sponsor of Carlton Football Club through Career One, before pulling out of the deal this year.
Justice Murphy said he considered imposing a higher penalty, but considering its “parlous financial situation”, believed $4.5 million plus costs would act as a suitable deterrent."
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Karma
Bastion as a business probably doesn’t look so good now either for sports advertising contracts with that dodgy fat fark a director.
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Would that be the same Mr Demetriou who denied he had tipped off David Evans that the ACC report mentioned Essendon? Who would have believed that? Indeed I thought the Federal Court had cleared him of any wrongdoing. At least that is what he said repeatedly after Justice Middleton’s decision.
It makes me wonder whether I can now believe anything the AFL ever said about Essendon. What a shame, because I thought it was time to move on.
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