Earl set for massive pay to break silence on doping

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SANDOR Earl is set to break his silence about becoming the ASADA investigation's first scalp in a paid television interview next week.
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The Daily Telegraph can confirm Earl’s management has been in negotiations with several networks since the 23-year-old admitted to trafficking and use of banned peptides on August 28.
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It’s understood Channel Nine has won the bidding war for Earl’s story, which will be one of the most anticipated sports interviews of the year.
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Channel Seven’s tell-all with former Essendon high performance manager Dean Robinson, who unloaded on suspended head coach James Hird, drew huge ratings across Australia.
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Coincidentally, Robinson was in the Roosters dressing rooms and player dugout to support his brother, Trent, in last Saturday night’s qualifying final against Manly.
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It’s believed Seven paid Robinson more than $100,000 for the 45-minute interview. Sources close to Earl last night said the deal with Channel Nine was yet to be finalised.
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However, the plan is for a prerecorded interview to be aired on next Thursday night’s Footy Show.
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The former Raiders and Panthers winger last week returned to Sydney from a brief overseas trip to Asia, which he took on the day after the NRL made his admission public.
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Earl’s charges carry a maximum four-year ban, but he’s co-operating with ASADA in a bid to obtain a substantial assistance discount that would cut his suspension to 12 months.
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Although Earl has admitted to trafficking peptide CJC-1295, the circumstances around his offence do not relate to the direct sale or supply of banned substances.
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Under the WADA code, trafficking can also include "transporting" or "delivering" banned substances.
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Of concern for Earl was a fateful drive he made from Mascot to Cabramatta toward the end of 2011, when he was recovering from a double shoulder reconstruction while contracted to the Panthers.
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At the same time sports scientist Stephen Dank was consulting with the club and advised Earl about the peptide-based remedy. Dank referred Earl to Dr Ijaz Khan, who worked at the Cabramatta clinic known as Injury Care Pty Ltd, where he had multiple rounds of injections.
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Earl told ASADA that on one occasion he collected a substance from Dank in Mascot and drove it to Cabramatta for his appointment with Dr Khan, which, under the WADA code, constitutes trafficking.
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Dank has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing or giving athletes banned substances.
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ASADA used text messages intercepted from Dank’s phone to build their case against Earl, who is considering his own legal action over claims he was told the substances were not prohibited.
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Earl will attest his knowledge of Dank’s practices in bid to gain ‘substantial assistance’, but no other NRL players or athletes have been implicated in his case.
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He met with ASADA again this week, but might have to wait until next month before learning the length of his ban.
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Something very wrong in all of this

 

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Paid interview? I bet he expresses all his remorse he has (because he got caught), and how he feels he has to come clean (while getting paid). Agreed, it is very wrong, although it is more on the networks who give the opportunity for this to happen, than the wrongdoers who take the opportunity.

 

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I hear reports he is set to drop two Roosters players in it.

 

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MINOR premiers the Sydney Roosters are about to be dragged into the NRL's doping investigations, with two players poised to be interviewed by ASADA.

The Daily Telegraph can reveal that the pair are about to receive letters requesting they attend interviews in coming weeks, **_while there is also a chance the probe could be extended to an ex-Roosters player now contracted to another club._**

It's believed the Roosters players' names came up during the investigation of Canberra Raiders star, Sandor Earl, who last month admitted to trafficking and use of banned peptides.

Roosters CEO Brian Canavan last night confirmed officials were aware of "rumours", but said ASADA was yet to contact the club.

"We've had no contact from ASADA," Canavan said. "The club is not aware of any investigation.

"We are aware that some rumours are circulating that a couple of players and ex-players may be interviewed.

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"The club is totally compliant with with the integrity unit's practices and procedures.

"The club has the highest standards in its own governance practice and procedures.

"The club is transparent."

The Daily Telegraph understands the Roosters have been implicated thanks to a common party between them and Earl, who started his career at Bondi Junction before moving to Penrith in 2010.

It's believed the common party has been interviewed by authorities.

Earl's camp have denied any suggestion the 23-year-old has given ASADA information about other NRL players.

Instead, he is providing evidence about sports scientist Steve Dank in a bid to obtain a 'substantial assistance' discount and have his ban cut from four years to 12 months.

Already, the exhaustive investigation has included interviews with more than 40 officials and players from Cronulla, Manly, Newcastle, Penrith, North Queensland, Parramatta and Gold Coast.

ASADA has appointed three full time investigators to the NRL's investigation since August and has more wide ranging powers which allows it to use phone records, emails and other communications as evidence to summons players or officials for interviews.

The NRL is expected to hand down findings from its own integrity unit investigation and the ASADA report at the same time in around four weeks. Senior officials and football staff from at least two of the clubs are in the firing line for failing to exercise their duty of care to players when Dank oversaw their supplements program.

These include Sharks coach, Shane Flanagan, former strength and conditioning coach, Trent Elkin (now at Parramatta) and several other staff members who were sacked from the Sharks several months ago.

They have all continually denied they were involved in any peptide injection program at the club. Mr Dank has repeatedly refused to be interviewed by ASADA, the AFL or the NRL and also denies any wrongdoing.

The NRL refused to comment on the new developments yesterday and would not confirm the names of either Roosters player. We understand, however, that trafficking allegations are part of the investigation.

The latest revelations that players from yet another club may be involved in the peptide scandal underlines the seriousness of the allegations made in February this year.

In the AFL, the Essendon investigation findings will also be handed down in coming weeks, with at least three senior football officials, including suspended coach, James Hird, also facing serious charges of breaching their duty of care to players.

While AFL boss, Andrew Demetriou has denied newspaper reports that life bans may be slapped on several Essendon officials, The Daily Telegraph understands ASADA's report outlines their alleged involvement in the administration of peptides to the entire team over a 12 month period.

Both the NRL and the AFL are signatories to the WADA and mercy of the drug agencies if violations are uncovered. The NRL says it will only deal with the facts as they come to light and these will be released in mid-October.

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