Instead of WADA/ASADA confusing everybody in a convoluted way, it would be much easier if WADA ONLY advised what can be safely taken and updated the site daily or regularly.
Perhaps, WADA and the AFL could go into manufacturing/distributing acceptable supplements together. (said with tongue in cheek)
Chris Pollard, lawyer, explains the AFL charade of bringing the game into disrepute.
I think it was because Jobe embarrassed them about the AOD thing on tv alerting everyone that the terrible drug we took was not under investigation & or not banned at the time & they knew it …hence why the big hunt for something they could get us on like the ambiguous tb4/thymosin thing
I have been saying this since the start if the thing isn’t on their approved list you don’t take it simple !!
all Olympic athletes are supposed to be amateur it is the professionals that should not come under WADA which was set up for the Olympics
Reposted because its Tuesday.
But that’s not the case in many of the sports these days
What do we think of Demetrious involvment in NBL given we may have a NBL licence in the future. Hawks also looking at getting a licence.
THE NBL has pulled off a major coup, appointing Andrew Demetriou as co-chair of its advisory board, alongside NBL owner Larry Kestelman.
The former AFL chief executive, who held the top office from 2003-14, will play a pivotal role in helping the NBL secure lucrative broadcast rights deals.
The league currently has agreements with Fox Sports, SBS and ABC.
Demetriou is credited with securing record rights deals for the AFL, including the five-year $1.25 billion bonanza in 2011.
Doesn’t the NBL know of Demetriou’s role as Executive Director of Acquire Learning? Acquire was fined $4m+ after an ACCC investigation in to it in relation to the VET Fee-Help scheme. Also Acquire mysteriously loaned Demetriou $1.6m and then a few months later gifted him a $1.6m bonus just before it was bankrupted.
He’s a fat mafia-esque crook
Demetriou deserves his own " strands in the cable" expose ; he is a seriously
shady piece of work.
Was watching an item on the Crown Casino and the “pokey fixing” saga, the
narrator was saying" and the board of Crown Casino went into a meeting…"
and there as bold as brass was the kilo challenged Austro- Greek walking
past the camera, makes sense doesn’t it! No conflict of interest, just reward
for services rendered. T
here is more than enough to fill an hour , less commercial
breaks
Demetriou was Chairman of Acquire Advisory Board , left in mid 2016. Carlton learnt its lesson with that sponsor which failed to pay up.
There was a problem with the share drop in his Capitol Health Company.
Bastion ( in which Hamish is also involved) gets contracts with AFL.
Then there is Beyond Boundaries ( Demetriou, Catterall - who got kicked out of AFL - and Ben Buckley, current NMFC President) which also gets contracts with AFL and which is caught up in a NSW investigation about how Beyond Boundaries let NSW club betting contracts to Crown Bet ( another one of Andy’ s ventures via Crown Resorts) which also has a contract with AFL.
Everything he touches has a stench.
Looking forward to the winner of the JT pre-season cup tomorrow- go Jackson!
Previously, I couldn’t give a stuff about NBL.
Now if they take Vlad with them , I hope they crash and burn.
Meanwhile, WADA is to hold its first global athlete forum in June. .
Athlete participation ( 150 in number) will be determined by nomination from NADOs and Olympic/Paralympic movements - i.e. only those prepared to say nice things about WADA and their NADO etc.
Wonder who ASADA will nominate
Go get 'em JT and JB…they deserve it.
Essendon drugs saga returns to Victorian Supreme Court
Michael Warner, Herald Sun
March 20, 2018 9:10pm
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THE Essendon drugs saga will return to the Victorian Supreme Court at 10.30am on Wednesday — 1870 days after the game’s greatest crisis erupted.
Lawyers for the AFL will front Justice John Dixon in a bid to avert a full-scale trial involving the calling of key witnesses, including league chief Gillon McLachlan and former commission chairman Mike Fitzpatrick.
Human rights lawyer Julian Burnside, QC, is leading the case brought against McLachlan and Fitzpatrick by Melbourne lawyer Jackson Taylor, who alleges misleading and deceptive conduct during the five-year supplements saga.
JULIAN BURNSIDE QC TO LEAD CASE AGAINST AFL CHIEF, EX-CHAIRMAN
AFL THREATENS ASADA SPLIT IF KEY ESSENDON DRUGS SAGA DOCUMENTS MADE PUBLIC
The AFL, led by silk Greg Harris, wants a limited trial without the need for witnesses or the discovery of documents.
But Burnside, who represented Bombers coach James Hird at the peak of his fight against the AFL, will argue even a limited trial sought by the league would require extensive discovery of documents and cross-examination of senior AFL figures.
The AFL’s application is the latest manoeuvre in an increasingly costly dispute which began last year.
Julian Burnside, QC, is leading the case brought against Gillon McLachlan and Mike Fitzpatrick. Picture: Nicole Garmston
League lawyers applied last March to have the proceeding dismissed unless Taylor provided security for their costs, which he did.
The case alleges McLachlan and Fitzpatrick contravened consumer law by misleading or deceiving the public over the AFL’s conduct in the saga, to protect its commercial interests and reputation.
It centres on a series of public comments, including:
McLACHLAN’S denials that he asked the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority to “take bits out” of an interim report unfavourable to the AFL.
McLACHLAN’S denials that he tried to engineer outcomes before Essendon players and officials were interviewed by ASADA and the AFL.
FITZPATRICK’S denial that he told axed Essendon football boss Danny Corcoran in March 2016 that “your mate (James) Hird will never get back into football”.
Mr Taylor, who has worked with law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler in Melbourne and Latham and Watkins in London, is seeking orders for the AFL to publish the truth about the matters over which he alleges the public was deceived.
He also seeks a declaration that McLachlan, Fitzpatrick and the AFL acted unlawfully in deceiving the public.
Some further details of JAT case - not sure what it all means…
So the AFL want the trial to proceed with no discovery and no witnesses!
In other news Round 1 will commence in a few days with no ball and no rules.
No witnesses or documents?
I WONDER WHY!?