By WaMackie - 18 Mar 2015 4:44 PM
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/o ... 7267063251
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"THE AFL is preparing to garner input from all of Australia’s major professional sports as the league seeks to improve the World Anti-Doping Agency drug code to make it a more appropriate policy in dealing with team sports. While the league’s intent is to always be WADA-compliant — and has signed up to the new anti-doping policy that came into effect on January 1 — it feels the code could be better structured to deal with issues that beset professional teams rather than individuals ...
A league spokesman said the AFL would always honour the mandatory WADA program but was eager to use the policy’s flexibility to finetune the code to suit the league and all Australian professional team sports ...
It is believed the league is not satisfied that the strict, intransigent confidentiality necessarily helps the public understand the policy. As well, there is a risk penalties can be unevenly applied.
Given that punishments are set out in stretches of time and not matches, two footballers could be guilty of the same offence but one spend his ban in the off-season and the other could miss a handful of games.
The league, not surprisingly, is worried the strict confidentiality that governs positive samples can put people in very awkward positions as well as clouding the process itself.
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By pv4 - 20 Apr 2015 6:30 PM
This thread took an unnaceptable turn and I've deleted the posts.
In no way are homophobic comments tolerated, or any personal attacks.
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