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The AFL ’s drugs integrity crisis is deepening with America’s peak anti-doping agency slamming the league’s “ill informed” and “secretive” approach to player testing.
says the AFL’s flawed three-strikes policy and off-the-books testing has inflicted untold reputational damage on the sport, and is failing both players and fans. The AFL has had the same policy for almost 20 years and has been quite open in saying that it was designed to protect players. But the policy has dramatically come under a fierce spotlight after it was questioned under parliamentary privilege by federal MP Andrew Wilkie.
chief and famously brought down cycling drug cheat Lance Armstong. In sports mad America, it’s his job to know when a major sport has been corrupted. And right now he thinks the AFL’s drug-testing policy is extremely problematic. “It reeks of nefarious behaviour,” he told 7NEWS. Tygart believes the problem is of the AFL’s own making. The ‘off-the-books player testing’ is, according to
, undermining the league’s own drugs policy. “It was incredibly ill-informed,” Tygart said. “You know, it wasn’t transparent. There was like, from what it appears, a lack of accountability behind it. It was, you know, secretive.” Tygart’s slap down comes as the league remains unapologetically behind its drugs policy that allows players to avoid positive tests with reports of faked game-day injuries.
says it’s not working. And they believe the ones paying the price are the athletes and those who love the game. “They did just in a very ineffective, ill-informed way that ultimately is now caused tremendous harm to their brand,” Tygart said. Tygart said the AFL needed to get its integrity back in this space and start again. “We strive for perfection. But when we mess up, you know what? Admit it, acknowledge it, vow to do better,” he said.
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