ASADA Saga Thread

[Art Vandelay]

so I listened to denan kemp (broncos, warriors..dragons?) locker room podcast and he had shandor earl on.

he basically explained that his trafficking bit, which was the main difference was he told a friend of his that wasn't an athlete about dank who could provide him with a substance (peptides)
hence the 4 year ban.

never took money
never transported anything

just on text message

 

[snowman]

and you believe him?

you probably also believe oj simpson and greg bird

 

[BlackWhiteBlue]

Earl said that that text exchange was what asada did him for. The charge was for aiding in trafficking of drugs. Didnt have to actually touch them to be involved

 

[Addy]

I always thought the trafficking was from when Dank got Earl to pick up the gear and drive it to the doctor to get injected

 

[Capital_Shark]

I always thought the trafficking was from when Dank got Earl to pick up the gear and drive it to the doctor to get injected

Yep was of the same belief myself.

 

[HaroldBishop]

The NRL is set to proceed against the "forgotten Cronulla five", the handful of Sharks players who declined a "doped and duped" deal with ASADA that saw many of their teammates serve a three-game suspension in 2014.

Lawyers for the five players – Colin Best, Paul Aiton, Ben Pomeroy, John Williams and Stuart Flanagan - were served by the NRL with violation notices on Monday.

The players will be given two weeks to respond and face a potential two-year ban.

The case of the Cronulla five was mentioned last week in a Senate committee hearing where ASADA chief executive, Ben McDevitt, was asked why the NRL had not acted against the players.

McDevitt said he had asked the same question.

The NRL's approach to doping matters is to provide the parties with the notices, together with a brief of evidence. This includes information from ASADA, together with any relevant detail from the defamation case.

While the Cronulla five were subject to the same 2011 doping regime as the players who were given a backdated suspension of only three matches, they did not admit guilt.

The lawyers for the five will presumably argue they should receive the same suspension but the NRL is mindful ASADA would argue otherwise and potentially appeal a light sentence to WADA.

Should the players contest the case, it will be headed to the NRL's Anti Doping Tribunal, chaired by Ian Callinan, QC.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/cronulla-sharks/nrl-take-action-against-former-cronulla-sharks-players-who-declined-asada-http://ec.tynt.com/b/rf?id=aBfWCmwwCr37XTadbiUzgI&u=sydneymorningherald
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[fitz]

Please be VERY careful what you say here: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/stephen-dank-sports-scientist-gave-dangerous-peptides-to-cancer-sufferer-nrl-player-jon-mannah/news-story/fecc53798d1c4e5290ffabf42c200820

Matter before Court so please no commentary here.

Stephen Dank: Sports scientist gave dangerous peptides to cancer sufferer, NRL player Jon Mannah
March 15, 2016 12:00am
Amy Dale Chief Court Reporter The Daily Telegraph


SPORTS scientist Stephen Dank showed “reckless indifference” to the life of NRL player Jon Mannah by providing him with dangerous peptides that may have accelerated his death from cancer, a jury found yesterday.

In the NSW Supreme Court, a jury of three men and one woman found defamatory meanings alleged by Mr Dank in an article published by The Daily Telegraph in April, 2013, concerning Mr Mannah’s death from non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma could be defended on the basis of truth.

Mr Dank sued Nationwide News, the publisher of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph, for defamation on the basis of three articles published about the supplements and peptides he administered while working for the Cronulla Sharks between March and May, 2011.

Mr Mannah died in January 2013 after suffering a relapse of his cancer.

Mr Dank alleged a story published three months after Mr Mannah’s death by Telegraph journalists Rebecca Wilson, Josh Massoud and James Hooper conveyed that “by administering peptides to Jon Mannah, (Dank) accelerated Mannah’s death from cancer”,

The jury agreed the story suggested this, but then indicated that the claim “was substantially true”.

 

[deano the p]

Perhaps not the best one to leave open for discussion. Maybe a sticky closed thread that only you can update?

Just a suggestion of course.

 

[fitz]

Perhaps not the best one to leave open for discussion. Maybe a sticky closed thread that only you can update?

Just a suggestion of course.

agreed

 

[HaroldBishop]

ASADA

Looks like the ASADA thread is closed. I thought this was worthy of a mention.

The lawsuit against the Cronulla Sharks has intensified after three ex-players joined three other former teammates in suing the club for negligence over the 2011 supplements program.

Albert Kelly, Paul Aiton and Dean Collis have launched legal action against the Sharks and have been listed for pre-trial conference on May 17, joining Isaac Gordon, Broderick Wright and Josh Cordoba in seeking compensation.

While the list of ex-players suing the club now stands at six, Fairfax Media understands it could rise to as many as 10 in the next month with other former Sharks considering suing for negligence, breach of contract and intentional tort during a period in 2011 when sports scientist Stephen Dank ran a supplements program at Cronulla.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...ts-program-20160322-gno99i.html#ixzz43fjmuI00

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[deano the p]

Yeah there's a little bit of worry about what could be said while there's an ongoing legal case. Might be worth PM'ing anything like this to Fitz to update the thread rather than start a new one.

 

[HaroldBishop]

Yeah there's a little bit of worry about what could be said while there's an ongoing legal case. Might be worth PM'ing anything like this to Fitz to update the thread rather than start a new one.

Wasn't that more to do with Dank/Mannah?

 

[deano the p]

Wasn't that more to do with Dank/Mannah?

That was the one that was put up but I believe it stands for any court case really. Could be wrong of course.

 

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Source: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=...m/news-story/11c64cf34402f779de8f6fd2bd49e45e