Put up or shut up, ASADA.

[Madsharkie]

Moreso, why was it raised in the first place, particularly as the "Blackest day in sport"?

I guess that 'blackest day' claim also had to do with the links to organised crime and match fixing. Why haven't we heard any further about these aspects? What a wank. Enough is enough ASADA.

 

[Surely]

CARO MELDRUM-HANNA: Steve Dank has officially declined ASADA's request for an interview. The former head of ASADA, Richard Ings, says the authority examined Dank's activities at NRL club Manly several years ago and cleared him of any wrongdoing.

You would agree that Steve Dank isn't a new name to sport in Australia?

RICHARD INGS, FORMER CEO, ASADA: Oh, I'm very familiar with Steve Dank. When I was the CEO of ASADA, it was during a period when there were questions which were raised about certain training techniques happening at the Manly Rugby League Club in Sydney.

CARO MELDRUM-HANNA: And what did you discover about Steve Dank then?

RICHARD INGS: Well I don't want to go into specifics about Mr Dank, but the techniques that were being used were examined at the time and they were found not to be banned under the World Anti-Doping Agency code.

CARO MELDRUM-HANNA: The substances in question at Cronulla were not listed as specifically prohibited on the ASADA website in 2011, but they are now.

RICHARD INGS: The peptides that we're talking about are clearly banned substances. They're clearly defined on the list of banned substances. Remembering that the list of banned substances is extremely extensive, it cannot cover every single banned substance by name, because there are always new substances, there are experimental substances that athletes may be using, so there are catch-all categories to cover certain types of doping... These players need to take this issue seriously and double and triple check everything that they are taking before they take it

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2013/s3720124.htm

So they were well aware of dank a long time before his stint at cronulla.

2nd point maybe asada should have provided some education to the players who aren't scientists or lawyers, especially as they were as they put it well aware of dank.

Two failures failing to alert club failing to provide prohibited substance education to players

 

[Surely]

And often what's on the label of these supplements doesn't even reflect what's in the bottle. The head of sports nutrition at the Australian Institute of Sport, Louise Burke, says some supplements manufacturers deliberately contaminate their product, trying to deliver a more potent (and possibly banned) substance to drive word-of-mouth sales.

‘[W]e do know that some manufacturers actually deliberately put things like steroids or stimulants into the products so that people can get that immediate return or kick or excitement, and that product [then] becomes a good seller.’

She says sports people can easily be trapped into taking performance enhancing drugs through these types of products.

‘t's confusing to scientists—it must be absolutely confusing to the consumer,’ Ms Bourke said.

David Mark's full investigation into ASADA will air Sunday 21 at 8.05 am.

Take for instance the supplement known as Humanofort. The supplement's American website says it regulates hormone levels, speeds recovery, increases sexual drive and helps memory, amongst other claims.

It also says Humanofort contains IGF-1, a peptide which is a banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency. And that's also how it was advertised here—with IGF-1 listed as an ingredient.

But then Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration started asking questions. It analysed Humanofort and discovered Humanofort doesn't contain IGF-1. Humanofort is now sold in Australia without any mention of IGF-1.

But how would an athlete know what the truth is? After all ASADA says it can't advise on what is and isn't in a supplement.

IGF-1 is one of the drugs that the Minister for Sport, Jason Clare, warned of when he launched the Crime Commission's report into drugs, sport, and organised crime earlier this year.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/2013-04-21/4633290

So igf-1 isn't even in humanofort

f**king hilarious stuff

 

[spider]

http://m.dailytelegraph.com.au/spor...-up-to-2-million/story-fni3gol8-1226642583762

THE drugs crisis gripping Cronulla is expected to deliver a crippling $2 million financial hit for the club as the ASADA investigation continues to drag on.

A day after The Daily Telegraph published an email from sacked Sharks doctor David Givney to coach Shane Flanagan stressing his concerns about peptide use in 2011, it can be revealed newly elected Cronulla board members will hold a crisis meeting with NRL boss Dave Smith today.

That includes vice-chairman Damian Keogh ahead of what is expected to be a tense Sharks board meeting tonight when serious questions about the drugs issue will finally be addressed.

Simply, Cronulla needs to act. Club insiders last night predicted the ASADA investigation would cost the club "between $1-$2 million" in lost sponsorship revenue and legal fees.

Keogh was reluctant to comment on the crisis - but indicated he and the new directors were ready to take control of the situation. "The new board has only just been elected and we have inherited this maelstrom," Keogh said.

"We are still on a fact-finding mission and not in a position to comment on the investigation. We are meeting Dave Smith at the NRL on Wednesday to discuss the latest developments. We will take this information to Wednesday night's board meeting at Cronulla.

"We have been elected to move forward and we are determined this will happen at the Sharks."

Cronulla continued to throw up a wall of silence in the face of parts of lawyer Trish Kavanagh's report, which continue to be leaked to The Sunday and Daily Telegraphs.

Flanagan refused to comment yesterday about the leaked email, in which Givney goes to great lengths to condemn the supplements and methods of sports scientist Stephen Dank.

The coach said he'd end Dank's involvement by "knocking it on the head ... no injections, no anything" but he remained involved for another seven weeks. Givney, along with three other members of the coaching staff, has since been sacked.

Smith urged people to stop putting pressure on ASADA just days after the anti-doping agency stopped interviews with Sharks players.

"ASADA need to figure out what their investigation strategy is. And we shouldn't put pressure on them," Smith said. "My issue is not to try to tell them how to do their jobs because frankly they're the experts.

"I think the key thing is, I want it done quickly but, at the same time, it's got to be done properly."

The Sharks turmoil comes as Dank yesterday claimed Essendon wasn't the only AFL club "pushing the envelope" with the use of exotic supplements last year.

 

[Card Shark]

Did ASADA want this to happen, considering they knew of Dank's activities?

 

[carcharias]

How much has this investigation cost ?

To catch a few footy players that took something 2 years ago that clearly doesn't f**king work.

 

[gunnamatta bay]

AUSTRALIA'S top sporting codes have been rocked by revelations that organised crime is behind the increasing use of banned performance-enhancing drugs by ''multiple athletes'' across sporting codes and possible attempts to fix matches and manipulate betting markets.
The heads of all the main professional and participation sports expressed shock after being briefed on a 12-month investigation by the Australian Crime Commission that found professional sport in Australia was ''highly vulnerable to organised crime infiltration''.


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/this...alian-sport-20130207-2e1i3.html#ixzz2TJ2r0Zo1

To refresh everyones memory and article from the SMH 8th Feb!

Most notable is the references to 'organised crime' yet this angle seems to have gone very cold unless they are suggesting our club is a hot bed of 'organised crime' !

Is our leagues club a front for a sinister internationally connected criminal organisation actively involved in wicked conspiracys to compromise Australian sport generally?

And who could forget this:

''Don't underestimate how much we know and, if you are involved in this, come forward before you get a knock at the door,'' said the Justice Minister, Jason Clare, adding that the revelations would disgust sports fans.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/this...alian-sport-20130207-2e1i3.html#ixzz2TJ4EHBJE

Maybe he should have said, " Don't underestimate how much we don't know to be fact."

 

[gunnamatta bay]

possible attempts to fix matches and manipulate betting markets.

lol. yes folks somewhere deep within the bowels of our club is a clandestine bunker where all sorts of evil plots to fix results are hatched. It's existance only known to an inner sanctum of shadowy figures while an unsuspecting and gullible board were unaware of the millions of dollars being churned over right under their feet.

 

[Card Shark]

Who needs the development when we have organised crime to pay our bills.

 

[blacktip-reefy]

Justice minister Clare. LOL
Career over before it starts. Sucked in k.hunt.

 

[gunnamatta bay]

come forward before you get a knock at the door,'' said the Justice Minister, Jason Clare

Oh yeah! The dreaded knock on the door. What is this sort of talk reminiscent of? Nazi controlled Poland? The Warsaw ghettos?

f**k off Facist scum. This is Australia.

 

[Bastard Squad]

To refresh everyones memory and article from the SMH 8th Feb!

Most notable is the references to 'organised crime' yet this angle seems to have gone very cold unless they are suggesting our club is a hot bed of 'organised crime' !

Disorganised maybe, but never organised.

 

[Bastard Squad]

SYDNEY lawyer Zali Burrows has called for a Royal Commission to examine ASADA’s conduct in the ‘‘drugs in sport’’ saga.

Burrows has been an outspoken critic of ASADA’s long-running investigations, and describes the latest decision relayed by ASADA to Sharks officials on Saturday — to cancel any further Cronulla Sharks player interviews — as a ‘‘continuing debacle’’.

ASADA recently met with backrower Wade Graham for several hours but legal disputes over what player co-operation was required saw ASADA suddenly cancel Graham’s interview.

Some observers suggest the move by ASADA is to try to gain infraction notices based on material from Trish Cavanagh’s independent report into the Sharks alleged doping practices in 2011, leaked and published by News Ltd.

However, Burrows slammed such suggestions yesterday.

‘‘The Kavanagh report would not be admissible evidence in a court of law, so the NRL should not make any findings upon any report based upon hearsay, opinion, and findings that are not scrutinised,’’ she said.

‘‘The NRL would be constrained acting upon any [ASADA] recommendations for breach and prosecutions, based on a report that was not commissioned by ASADA, and open to a challenge because of a lack of due process.

‘‘How can ASADA refer matters for infractions upon a report that they were not party to. It ... would most certainly be a breach of natural justice.’’

Burrows said the NRL should demand that ASADA provide them with evidence, and ‘‘not mere suspicions’’.

‘‘Failing that, the NRL should kindly ask ASADA to ’go away’,’’ she said.

She said the drugs in sport saga had served little more than a ‘‘political agenda, leaving a carnage of reputations in its wake’’.

‘‘If ASADA have compelling evidence to mount a successful prosecution then it should do so,’’ Burrows said.

‘‘But I would like a Royal Commission into ASADA’s conduct.

‘‘Let the ASADA investigators be investigated — and to be compelled for questioning.’’

http://www.theleader.com.au/story/1497252/lawyer-slams-asada-investigation/?cs=1633

 

[carcharias]

SYDNEY lawyer Zali Burrows has called for a Royal Commission to examine ASADA’s conduct in the ‘‘drugs in sport’’ saga.


Burrows has been an outspoken critic of ASADA’s long-running investigations, and describes the latest decision relayed by ASADA to Sharks officials on Saturday — to cancel any further Cronulla Sharks player interviews — as a ‘‘continuing debacle’’.
ASADA recently met with backrower Wade Graham for several hours but legal disputes over what player co-operation was required saw ASADA suddenly cancel Graham’s interview.
Some observers suggest the move by ASADA is to try to gain infraction notices based on material from Trish Cavanagh’s independent report into the Sharks alleged doping practices in 2011, leaked and published by News Ltd.
However, Burrows slammed such suggestions yesterday.
‘‘The Kavanagh report would not be admissible evidence in a court of law, so the NRL should not make any findings upon any report based upon hearsay, opinion, and findings that are not scrutinised,’’ she said.
‘‘The NRL would be constrained acting upon any [ASADA] recommendations for breach and prosecutions, based on a report that was not commissioned by ASADA, and open to a challenge because of a lack of due process.
‘‘How can ASADA refer matters for infractions upon a report that they were not party to. It ... would most certainly be a breach of natural justice.’’
Burrows said the NRL should demand that ASADA provide them with evidence, and ‘‘not mere suspicions’’.
‘‘Failing that, the NRL should kindly ask ASADA to ’go away’,’’ she said.
She said the drugs in sport saga had served little more than a ‘‘political agenda, leaving a carnage of reputations in its wake’’.
‘‘If ASADA have compelling evidence to mount a successful prosecution then it should do so,’’ Burrows said.
‘‘But I would like a Royal Commission into ASADA’s conduct.
‘‘Let the ASADA investigators be investigated — and to be compelled for questioning"

http://www.theleader.com.au/story/1497252/lawyer-slams-asada-investigation/?cs=1633

 

[carcharias]

f**k you gotta be quick!!!

10.00am ..dead heat...I demand a replay!!!

 

[Card Shark]

Carch you were beaten by a nose. Photo finish has confirmed that.

 

[carcharias]

moderator favourtism more like it

 

[Bastard Squad]

Mine in neater

 

[carcharias]

Mine in neater

min makin moor sens bat.

 

[blacktip-reefy]

Shes got it in for ASADA Zali & she is out thinking the likes of Alan Sullivan QC who these days rolls like a profiter.