GWS and Lachie Whitfield - Drugs Investigation

[Bornadog]

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I keep mixing people up but I thought he just imported something in?

That was a different bloke:

AN AFL aspirant has been banned from all sport for 18 months for importing performance-enhancing drugs.
VFL star Wade Lees yesterday said he would not abandon his AFL dream despite being slugged with the ban by AFL Victoria.
Lees, 24, read his sanction in an email at Casey Scorpions training on Wednesday night - more than two years after he bought the fat-burning product online from the US.

Lees was then charged with "attempted use of a prohibited substance violation" and banned by AFL Victoria after Round 7 this season.

He hadn't even used the stuff

[boydogs]

Re: GWS and Lachie Whitfield - Drugs Investigation

I keep mixing people up but I thought he just imported something in?

Saad's ban was for a positive test due to an unmarked ingredient in a protein supplement

[Twodogs]

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Wasn't it a supplement a friend made? He'd actually been warned not to take it but he did so he was doubly stupid is how I remember it. I tend to fantasise about things sometimes though.

[jeemak]

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The AFEL have ASADA over a barrel and both parties know it. It's a broken system when an organisation such as the AFEL, with its track record of highly questionable outcomes from investigations it conducts, chooses a panel to find guilt or innocence of it's own employees. A decision that stands as final unless the world anti-doping body chooses to escalate it to a neutral environment which is a long and incredibly expensive process.

More often than not a home grown kangaroo court decision would be final, so ASADA is forced to take what they can get. Organisations like the AFL should have no involvement in the decision making process, but due to costs isn't likely to change.

I wonder what the WADA and ASADA signatory compliance fees are. Probably low enough to not be a deterrent I suppose.

[boydogs]

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Wasn't it a supplement a friend made? He'd actually been warned not to take it but he did so he was doubly stupid is how I remember it. I tend to fantasise about things sometimes though.

Just checked, the ingredient was on there but he didn't check if it was banned. Sorry for the misinformation

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/ahmed-saad-devastated-over-drug-ban-but-vows-to-return-20131203-2yo7s.html

[bulldogtragic]

Re: GWS and Lachie Whitfield - Drugs Investigation

Wasn't it a supplement a friend made? He'd actually been warned not to take it but he did so he was doubly stupid is how I remember it. I tend to fantasise about things sometimes though.

It was in the shake product of one of his personal sponsors. Claims he didn't read the fine print from memory.

[Twodogs]

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It was in the shake product of one of his personal sponsors. Claims he didn't read the fine print from memory.

I remember now. At first the story was is he had been warned by the club or someone at the club that the drink contained a problematic ingredient when the club knew he was using it, warned him that it had an ingredient on the banned list but Saade said that this mentor or friend more or less overruled the club and said he should keep using it. Then the story changed 36 hours or so later.

[Greystache]

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I remember now. At first the story was is he had been warned by the club or someone at the club that the drink contained a problematic ingredient when the club knew he was using it, warned him that it had an ingredient on the banned list but Saade said that this mentor or friend more or less overruled the club and said he should keep using it. Then the story changed 36 hours or so later.

From memory it had an ingredient that was banned on match day but not during recovery. It was basically a stimulant ingredient. He was told he could drink it but not on match day, he kept doing it anyway, then got tested after a game and turned in a positive result.

[Twodogs]

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From memory it had an ingredient that was banned on match day but not during recovery. It was basically a stimulant ingredient. He was told he could drink it but not on match day, he kept doing it anyway, then got tested after a game and turned in a positive result.

That's it! I thought I'd read somewhere that he had been warned about this particular ingredient and told that the "energy drink" he was using was one of the substances that was illegal on match day but went ahead and did it anyway.


Doubly stupid. Maybe triplely?

[Twodogs]

Re: GWS and Lachie Whitfield - Drugs Investigation

From memory it had an ingredient that was banned on match day but not during recovery. It was basically a stimulant ingredient. He was told he could drink it but not on match day, he kept doing it anyway, then got tested after a game and turned in a positive result.

That's it! I thought I'd read somewhere that he had been warned about this particular ingredient and told that the "energy drink" he was using was one of the substances that was illegal on match day but went ahead and did it anyway.


Doubly stupid. Maybe triplely?

[boydogs]

Re: GWS and Lachie Whitfield - Drugs Investigation

Doubly stupid. Maybe triplely?

Doubly stupid. Maybe triplely?

Quadruply, maybe hexatruply

[Twodogs]

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Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck.

[Bornadog]

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ASADA confirms it will not pursue further action in Whitfield affair.

Full story here

[1eyedog]

Re: GWS and Lachie Whitfield - Drugs Investigation

ASADA confirms it will not pursue further action in Whitfield affair.

Full story here

Snippet from the article;

"I note the investigation revealed no use or intended use of performance-enhancing drugs. Given the circumstances, I do not believe pursuit of additional action under the AFL anti-doping rules is warranted."

Well you can't find that out if you can't catch him I suppose.

[Bulldog Joe]

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Snippet from the article;



Well you can't find that out if you can't catch him I suppose.

Sets a nice precedent. I wonder how many players will be on an alleged bender when they should be available for testing.

NOTE to ALL Players

If you find that you have ingested any substance that may be on a banned list, inadvertently or other wise, please find alternative accommodation until it has cleared your body. It will also be of assistance if you do not officially inform your club as this will also avoid the possibility of others being found complicit.