Ex-AFL player tested positive for performance-enhancing substance under AFL anti-doping regime
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Positive tests for performance -enhancing drugs are extremely rare in AFL. The latest cases of anti-doping contained positive tests for illegal substances such as cocaine, which is considered to be a performance enhancement only on the day’s day.
Local leagues such as state leagues are subject to the same anti-doping rules as AFL. Players who are found to use PEDs can take bans up to four years.
Unlike Joel Smith, Melbourne, which was positive at the end of 2023, was for a prohibited substance in and outside the alleged competition to violate the doping code of the state league player on a match day.
Smith was part of a long -standing SIA investigation, and on August 20, 2023, a positive match against Hawthorn for a positive match against Hawthorn and for four separate rules violations, including cocaine smuggling under human trafficking or anti -doping rules. There was no criminal offense.
Smith has been temporarily suspended since October 9, 2023 after a competitive positive test.
Positive tests for prohibited substances such as human growth hormone, anabolic steroids, testosterone and some peptides are rare in AFL.
The Collingwood couple Josh Thomas and Lachie Keeffe, Ped Clenbuterol, after a positive testing, they received two -year bans from 2015, admitted that the leaning substance had probably entered their bodies after using non -season drugs.
34 past and current Essendon players suspended for the 2016 season did not positively test for a banned substance. Instead, Anti-Doping officials suspended them on conditional evidence that they were applied with the banned peptide thimosine beta-4.
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