Wendell to play AFL
Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 6:39 pm
Apparently they have no problem with Cocaine users playing their game...
.Drug test case on agenda
By Paul Malone
May 22, 2006
SPORTS and players' associations across Australia will watch with interest today when a Victorian Supreme Court case resumes on the confidentiality of three positive anti-doping tests by AFL players.
At stake is future resistance of player associations to the anti-doping codes forced on their rich and famous members by pressure from the Federal Government and global sporting leaders.
So, too, is the job of newspaper journalists to chase information about drug-taking allegations, which target many of the biggest names in Australian sport, and eventually write what they know to be the truth.
In March, when Australia was choking on its diet of Commonwealth Games gold medals in Melbourne, a Supreme Court judge extended an injunction stopping four newspapers from identifying three AFL players who had tested positive to recreational drugs.
One test is reported to have been positive to both cocaine and ecstasy