AFLcrap1 wrote:This bloke tells it like it is .This sport is rotten to the core.
yet AFL fans want to stick their head up their arse & pretend everything is fine
Essendon set to face 'several' charges from ASADA, says John Fahey
Date
December 13, 2013 - 3:01PM
Emma Quayle
Football writer with The Age
Essendon is likely to face "several" anti-doping charges for its controversial supplements program, according to outgoing World Anti-Doping Agency president John Fahey.
In an interview with the Australian Financial Review, Fahey expressed anger that Essendon had not been examined by WorkSafe Victoria for the program that saw the club fined $2 million by the AFL and senior coach James Hird suspended for 12 months.
While the AFL has received no information that Essendon players would be issued with infraction notices, the ASADA investigation is ongoing.
“I expect there will be several charges by ASADA. It's only a matter of when," said Fahey, who finishes as WADA boss at the end of this month.
“I've always prided myself that Australians played tough but fair. And then it was 'hang on, now we're cheating'.”
Fahey told the AFR it was disgraceful the way "the club has locked arms around itself and said we'll fix this" and questioned why WorkSafe Victoria had taken no action against the club. He said he also expected charges to be laid against NRL players.
“Where is WorkSafe Victoria in all of this? How can James Hird be at the helm of the club as the head coach when 4000-plus injections have been given to playing staff, none of which anybody can tell us what it was, most of which we know is not approved for human consumption, and put at risk these kids, and not have WorkSafe Victoria banging on their door that this is an unsafe workplace?" he said.
"Nothing's been done there – that's the sacred cow AFL is. It's disgraceful that WorkSafe haven't been in there tipping it on its head.”
“No sports minister or sports official I've met anywhere in the world wants to have their athletes in the headlines for the wrong reasons. The first thing they say to you is 'how can we fix this?' "They'll give you all the support you want and tell you why it's so important to fight Drugs in sport as long as it's not their sport.
"When their sport gets caught with it, they want to make it go away. If they can cover it up, they will.”
That last line says it all ..
Corruption /shady deals. plenty of Hush Money to keep things quiet.
Fahey......the guy who knows so little about Essendons case he keeps himself informed using old news articles! He hasn't even read the AFL interim report!
The resolution came as World Anti-Doping Agency president John Fahey conceded his public declaration that Essendon faced inevitable doping charges was based on months-old "general discussions" and what he had read in newspapers.
Mr Fahey, who finishes as the head of the world's peak anti-doping body this month, has repeatedly said Essendon would have a case to answer once the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency completed its investigation into the club's 2012 supplements program.
Mr Fahey reiterated those comments in an interview with the Australian Financial Review published yesterday.
"I expect there will be several charges by ASADA," he said. "It's only a matter of when."
When contacted by The Weekend Australian, Mr Fahey admitted he had no specific knowledge on which to base his claims. He said he had not received any briefings from ASADA about developments in its investigation or the strength of the evidence gathered.
He also had not read ASADA's 400-page interim report, which formed the basis of the AFL's charges against Essendon, Hird and three other club officials.
"I have no knowledge," Mr Fahey said. "Nor do I want it. I have had some general discussions at different stages over the past year with different personnel, none of which have had any detail in it. I steadfastly refuse to accept detail.
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