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WADA Appeal Against 34 Current and Former Players of Essendon Football Club Upheld

Violation of Anti-Doping Rules Established; Players Suspended

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The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has today issued its decisionin the arbitration procedure between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and 34 current andformer players of Essendon.

The appeal filed by WADA against the Australian Football League (AFL) Anti-Doping Tribunal’sdecision of 31 March 2015 is upheld and the appealed decision is set aside. The 34 playersconcerned are sanctioned with a period of ineligibility of two years, commencing on 31 March 2015,with credit given for any individual period of ineligibility already served. Thus, most of thesuspensions will come to an end in November 2016.

The arbitration procedure was conducted by a panel of CAS arbitrators: the Hon. Michael J. BeloffQC, barrister in London, United Kingdom (President), Mr. Romano Subiotto QC, Solicitor Advocatein Brussels, Belgium, and the Hon. James Spigelman AC QC, barrister in Sydney,Australia and London, United Kingdom.

The Panel held a hearing with the parties in Sydney, Australia from 16 to 20 November 2015. In itsArbitral Award, the Panel found to its comfortable satisfaction that Clause 11.2 of the 2010 AFLDoping Code (use of a prohibited substance) has been violated and found by a majority that allplayers were significantly at fault.

The full Arbitral Award is published on the CAS website.

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