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- Sep 21, 2017
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https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sp...g/news-story/5856a2b10ad6aae555a416d68e316973
AFL footballers who test positive to illicit drugs such as ice, cocaine and ecstasy would be scrutinised by a new, anti-corruption watchdog under changes proposed by a federal government commissioned review of the integrity of our Australian sport.
The contentious recommendation, if accepted, would set the AFL and its players’ association on a collision course with the proposed National Sports Integrity Commission, a powerful investigations and regulative body intended to lead our national defence against corruption in sport.
Project Aperio, an Australian Crime Commission examination of the links between sport, organised crime and performance enhancing drugs which preceded the so-called, “blackest day in Australian sport’’ and the Essendon and Cronulla drugs scandals, found that illicit and performance enhancing drugs were often supplied to athletes by the same criminals.
The ACC, since renamed the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, warned that the supply of drugs to athletes was a means for criminals to compromise athletes, infiltrate sport and potentially, manipulate the result of sporting events.
The Wood report, commissioned a year ago by the Turnbull Government and co-authored by former World Anti-Doping Agency director general David Howman and former Racing NSW chief steward Ray Murrihy, runs to 280 pages and makes 52 recommendations.
An AFL spokesperson declined to comment until the AFL had received the report.
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AFL footballers who test positive to illicit drugs such as ice, cocaine and ecstasy would be scrutinised by a new, anti-corruption watchdog under changes proposed by a federal government commissioned review of the integrity of our Australian sport.
The contentious recommendation, if accepted, would set the AFL and its players’ association on a collision course with the proposed National Sports Integrity Commission, a powerful investigations and regulative body intended to lead our national defence against corruption in sport.
Project Aperio, an Australian Crime Commission examination of the links between sport, organised crime and performance enhancing drugs which preceded the so-called, “blackest day in Australian sport’’ and the Essendon and Cronulla drugs scandals, found that illicit and performance enhancing drugs were often supplied to athletes by the same criminals.
The ACC, since renamed the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, warned that the supply of drugs to athletes was a means for criminals to compromise athletes, infiltrate sport and potentially, manipulate the result of sporting events.
The Wood report, commissioned a year ago by the Turnbull Government and co-authored by former World Anti-Doping Agency director general David Howman and former Racing NSW chief steward Ray Murrihy, runs to 280 pages and makes 52 recommendations.
An AFL spokesperson declined to comment until the AFL had received the report.
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