^^^Have leopards ever changed spots?
So they have retired Black Caviar out of fear that her unbeaten run will be ended by an entry from Cronulla Sharks or the Essendon Football Club.
A mungo thought it was appropriate to attend ASADA wearing his thongs: memories of the Bulldogs and the Coffs Harbour rape case.
No charges, no court case, no conviction, no rape. But yeah, lots of thongs, shorts and baseball caps.
I am evidently the odd one out here: its not what I would wear or what I hope my kids would wear to a formal thing like this but I don't get the big deal.The said mungo has apologised for his dress sense (or lack of it). I suppose that it makes it alright in his eyes.
These mungoes just don't get it.
Did he say why they couldn't use it?One of the head honchos of WADA was on the radio this morning, and made a point I hadn't heard elsewhere: that ASADA couldn't use any of the evidence provided by the Australian Crime Commission (which was the basis of the big press conference earlier in the year), and therefore had to go out and re-collect all that evidence themselves before charging anyone.
That would be an explanation for why there has been so much hoo-haa without anyone actually being charged, but really: What? How on earth could evidence collected by one supposed law-enforcement agency be unusable in this way?
Did he say why they couldn't use it?
Which radio station?
Probably use of coercive powers and/or informant related to an existing investigation and they don't want to burn him. Possibly both. Possibly incidental information gathered through physical or electronic surveillance.No, didn't elaborate and wasn't questioned further. Here's the transcript from ABC AM this morning:
DAVID HOWMAN: Well look, I think the investigation is taking its place in the normal fashion. The one thing that I was not aware of until I visited Australia recently was that all the information that had been gathered by the crime commission cannot be used as evidence per say by the Australian sports anti-doping agency. So, what they have to do is re-collect the information in such a way that they can present it as evidence in any one of their tribunals.
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2013/s3752236.htm
According to their website if they use the coercive powers there are restrictions on how he information gathered can then be used:I thought they could use incidental information?
That's how they caught all those involved in the "jockey tapes" saga.
True. I don't think they can "self refer" though (meaning their investigations must be referred to them by the ACC Board). How it got to ASADA is an interesting exercise in speculation.According to their website if they use the coercive powers there are restrictions on how he information gathered can then be used:
http://www.crimecommission.gov.au/our-work/coercive-powers.
Even so it does not explain the decision to go public - the material gathered under coercion should have been used to inform and allow targeting of more traditional investigative methods, I would have thought.
I doubt we'll ever know what went on and why it happened the way it did.True. I don't think they can "self refer" though (meaning their investigations must be referred to them by the ACC Board). How it got to ASADA is an interesting exercise in speculation.
Its one of the bitter sweet aspects of our game's niche position in this land: do we really want to be top of a pile of codes if top of that pile sees Tom Waterhouse's teeth gleaming from in front of every scrum - god knows there are so many (scrums, that is) in our game it would be a marketing bonanza for him.With one of the worlds best Mungoballers up on Drink Driving charges at the moment, another under suspician of assaulting a female friend, several others including one of Heavensgames finest dealing with associated alcohol and/or gambling demons, not to mention the various Tom Waterhouse sports gambiling issues, this little black duck is left wondering if it is Performance Enhancing Drugs and Organised Crime that are the Blackest things in Australian Sport or is it Gambling and Alcohol?
The latter two seem to have had more impact this year and brought more people, sports, and clubs into disrepute than any thing that the Sports Minister and ASADA have uncovered.
Hird told ASADA Demetriou tipped off Bombers
http://www.smh.com.au/afl/afl-news/...-off-bombers-20130725-2qkt2.html?rand=9802221