Illegal drug use widespread in Australian sport: Crime Commission

[Darren]

It's really not that crazy, we like to be entertained. We have gone to concerts and bought the music of many drugged up performers and never cared as long as the show was good. We paid to watch comedians who were very funny drugged up, John Belushi come to mind. It wouldn't surprise me if Coach popped a few pills during a late night working on TWF.

If pills is short for pilsner - damn right

[brokendown gunfighter]

Belushi had an excuse:he was on a mission from God!

[Alison]

Good piece (as ever) by Glenn Mitchell on the Roar:

http://t.co/u3eHqv1T

As peptides help to build muscle, and Australia has no testing facility able to detect it, it would be extremely naive to think they are not being used at some level (either systemically or individually) in rugby union. I can think of one recent photo in particular that looks very suspicious.

[jargan83]

Manly have apparently been cleared overnight

The cynical side of me is starting to think this whole thing is some bored bureaucrat on a fishing trip

[The InnFORCEr]

Manly have apparently been cleared overnight

Of course they have been, never had a doubt

[shasta]

Manly are stating that, according to ASADA, none of their players have TESTED POSITIVE. Lance Armstrong and Ben Cousins didn't either.
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[sittingbison]

its hilarious to see all the ducking dodging and excuses being trotted out that have made cycling a laughingstock for 20 years.

The sad fact is this will all be swept under the carpet, its exactly the same as Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens. There is no way that business as usual at AFL and NRL will be endangered.

[shasta]

There are supposedly quite a number of blood samples which have been collected over yhe past 18 months. Don't know if they have been sent to the only 2 labs in the world capable of this testing. Till the next undetectable substance comes along.

If there has been no blood samples collected by ASADA, it's hard to see how this can progress unless it's going to be some form of evidence based proceedings as per Lance Armstrong.
If nothing else it's fired a warning shot and hopefully will scare the cheats sufficiently.
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[sittingbison]

correct shasta.

Fahey said only yesterday that WADA welcomed the new regimen of “non-analytical” evidence that really started with Armstrong vs USADA. In this case the ACC has telephone intercepts etc, and ASADA could use them to get people to give evidence.

It wont happen though.

[Stone Cold]

Manly are stating that, according to ASADA, none of their players have TESTED POSITIVE. Lance Armstrong and Ben Cousins didn't either.
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Nor has anyone from the Bombers

[jargan83]

Essendon captain Jobe Watson has made the stunning admission he took the banned substance AOD-9604, but the AFL's reigning Brownlow Medallist remains adamant he did nothing wrong.

The star onballer said on Fox Footy's On The Couch he took the anti-obesity drug after signing a consent form.

"I signed that consent form and my understanding, after it being given through (club doctor) Bruce Reid and the club, that I was receiving AOD,'' he said on Monday night.

Asked if he thought the substance was legal when he was taking it, Watson replied: "that it was legal at the time and that was actually what I was told I was being given.''

Essendon are under Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) and AFL investigations for last year's supplement program.

The AFL hope ASADA will announce its findings in early August.

AOD-9604 has emerged as a major factor in the controversy.

The World Anti-Doping Authority issued a statement early last month, saying the drug was a banned substance.

Watson admitted that clarification surprised him.

Read more: http://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-...#ixzz2XHYGqTQw