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Showing posts with label Australian sport. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australian sport. Show all posts

Saturday, 4 May 2013

Bombers chairman David Evans rejects accusations that players are gaining any advantage this season

Research carried out in the last few years has shown that if you were to take the controversial supplements (peptides) you are likely to suffer from soft tissue injures while playing. Bombers had the highest rate of soft tissue injures in the league last year.

Bombers chairman David Evans says his club will prove it is not gaining any advantage this season from the controversial supplement program carried out last year.

AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou spoke about rival clubs saying bombers having an unfair advantage because of they unbeaten start to they season. 


Evans repeated on Friday that he would not publicly detail the practices that took place at the club last season while the AFL and Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) investigation into whether they breached anti-doping rules continues.


"I would like to thank Andrew Demetriou for his support of the club yesterday when he warned other clubs against what he called scurrilous innuendo that our players have some kind of advantage," Evans said at a Bombers' pre-match function.


"I can also promise you this: whatever happened last year with what I conceded were irregular practices, there is no advantage to our players and this will be proven."


Evans said it was tough having the club being the subject of constant speculation without being able to publicly fight back, given the Bombers don't want to compromise the investigation.


"I would love nothing more than to be correcting some of the more wild accusations and speculation that's occurred over the time," he said.


"But I ask you again for your patience while we let the AFL and ASADA investigation take its course."


He said the Bombers could at least take heart that their players were showing maturity and character in adversity.


"These young men are utter professionals in what they are doing week in and week out," he said.





  





Tuesday, 30 April 2013

Waterhouse V. Singleton horse racing issue, so how the hell is Andrew Johns involved?


When a disagreement between the world renowned horse trainer Gai Waterhouse and multi millionaire horse owner John Singleton was first brought forward in the media nobody really new what was going on and then the Rugby League champion Andrew Johns and Gai’s bookmaker son Tom were brought into the feud! After a week of new stories and evidence coming out around this high profile, high stakes relationship breakdown, the whole picture of the situation has almost been clarified.

To explain briefly, John’s had been told by Tom Waterhouse at the ANZAC Day NRL game that “he didn’t like” Singleton’s horse ‘More Joyous’, and when John’s relayed this information to one of his close friends it was eventually passed on to Singleton, who was outraged to here this. Singleton severed all ties with the Waterhouse family and himself, creating a dispute that surrounded both that they were colluding to give themselves an unfair advantage in terms of betting and that he was never given any information of More Joyous’ circumstance. It was discovered later that More Joyous was in fact on antibiotics prior to the race, without Singleton’s knowledge.

With Gai immediately sacked as Singleton’s horse trainer, there was a clear display of the seriousness that the situation presented to the horse racing and sports betting community. It is hoped by people in these circles that the situation can be totally sorted out and the true facts of it presented to the public, so as to not hurt the sport any further. This is particularly important for many at this point in time as online betting and actually the particular involvement of Tom Waterhouse as the odds presenter for the NRL are facing a lot of scrutiny and backlash later. Furthermore horse racing is under fire from another angle also, after many horse crashes at a specialist derby over the weekend have stemmed public and animal rights group concerns.

Hopefully full communication of the Stewards Enquiry looking into this whole Waterhouse V Singleton saga can alleviate concerns surrounding such a high stakes controversy in our sport. 

Not such a good business relationship after all...