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'Dons 'couldn't walk' after Dank injections


Essendon players have admitted they suffered hot flushes, sore buttocks and couldn’t walk following injections administered by banned sports scientist Stephen Dank.

The revelations were made to the AFL’s anti-doping tribunal hearing following the Bombers controversial supplements program in 2012.

Transcripts of the players’ testimony have been published by News Limited in a 1294-page document, although none of the Bombers were identified, despite their names being revealed when they were cleared earlier this year.

The transcripts highlight the players’ confusion and pain, at times physical, as a result of the club’s 2012 injection program.

They were among the accounts of 45 players, including 11 who were not charged, despite admitting they received injections.

Several Bombers told ASADA investigators that they suffered hot flushes and intense pain as a result of the club’s supplements program with one player fearing he would miss a game with sore buttocks.

"It was like concrete going into your arse," was how one Bomber described the injections.

None of the players could recall specifically if they were injected with Thymosin Beta 4 – the drug they were charged with taking.

The documents also reveal that ASADA’s case was weakened when its key witness, whose identity remains a secret, said the Bombers were more like to have injected with TB500.

The transcripts also highlight the difficult task facing WADA when they appeal the not guilty finding at the Court of Arbitration for Sport later this year.

They reveal that ASADA’s case was weakened when its key witness said the Bombers were more like to have injected with TB500.

In his closing address to the tribunal, the Bombers’ lawyer David Grace, QC, referred to details from every player interview and said of ASADA’s case, "you can see how all over the place it was".

Dank had been unclear about what he was injecting the Bombers with, telling some players it was Thymosin or peptide AOD-9604 and others that the substances were vitamins and melatonin, according to Mr Grace.

A section of the document also linked Dank with the Geelong Cats during the club’s premiership era.

Former Essendon and Geelong fitness coach Dean Robinson said the Cats had "used the services of Mr Dank" with blood tests being carried out on the players and even suggestions from Robinson that players undergo have 'amino acids analysis'.
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What happened here , compared to what happened there , is like comparing a crack in the wall to the Grand Canyon.
 
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Yeah it been an action packed day

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-08-10/keeffe-thomas-accept-two-year-bans

Two Collingwood players accepted 2 year bans for injesting clenbuterol. Their excuse? they took party drugs that happened to be laced with it. Wow.


http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-08-10/cats-admit-ordering-drugs-from-dankconnected-company

Other AFL clubs, in this case Geelong, are still distancing themselves from Dank and Robinson.


http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-08-10/little-comes-out-swinging-after-bomber-thompson-claims

...and Essendon still isn't finished with its long term implosion
 
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Just be happy when you click and realise its not us. Seeing the AFL still copping this on the back of their arrogance and delusion of a high, untouchable status outside Melbourne is ****ing delicious.
 
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Certainly played out different to what I thought it would some 2 plus seasons ago, real ground swell of Essendon fans even turning on Hird now, when you read comments like "it felt like concrete going into your ass" see why so many are worried about long term effects.. But happily we are still in the shire not sure through luck or good management not Gosford or Perth finals bound.
 
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Sandor Earl cops 4 year ban from the NRL, for use of, and trafficking of banned performance drugs, back dated to the start of his provisional ban.

asada got their man.......lol
 
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Love how penrith came under no scrutiny for that even though he said he

Met dank at training, the club physio introduced them because of his shoulder rehab
He was told by dank and the doctor that jabbed him penrith were being billed.

Everyone blew up about cronulla today saying they were ****ed. Plain and simple an 18 month probe and they couldnt proove much. Earl basically fessed up.

Feel for him cos he obviously was decieved in a way.
 
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You know that old time travelling chestnut about if you had a time machine, would you travel back in time and shoot Hitler? If you did have access to the TARDIS, would you travel back in time and stop Dank? (shooting him might be a bit over the top, admittedly)
 
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Feel sorry for the bloke, he was naive, but he's been hard done by.

Didn't help he was thrown under a bus by Penrith and the NRL.

Trafficking should have been dropped, such a stupid rule.
 
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