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The Essendon Football Club supplements controversy (commonly known as the Essendon supplements saga) is a sports controversy which began in late 2011. The Essendon Football Club, a professional Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League (AFL), has been investigated since February 2013 by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) over the legality of its supplements program during the 2012 AFL season and the preceding preseason. The initial stages of the investigation in 2013 made no findings regarding the legality of the supplements program, but highlighted a wide range of governance and duty-of-care failures relating to the program. In August 2013, the AFL fined Essendon $2,000,000, revoked its opportunity to play in the 2013 finals series, and suspended senior coach James Hird and general manager Danny Corcoran as a result of these findings. The second phase of the investigation resulted in thirty-four players being issued show cause notices by ASADA and infraction notices by the AFL in 2014, alleging the use of the banned peptide Thymosin beta-4 during the 2012 season. After facing a tribunal hearing in the 2014/15 offseason, the players were found not guilty of these offences. That decision is presently being appealed by the World Anti-Doping Agency to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and hearings on the matter began on 16 November 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Appeal into AFL anti-doping tribunal's decision on Essendon players to be heard on November 16 )〕 The controversy has had serious ramifications and adverse effects on the football club as a whole. A number of senior staff have either been dismissed or have resigned. Senior staff no longer at the club due to the controversy include David Evans (former chairman), Ian Robson (former CEO), Danny Corcoran (former head of football), Dean Robinson (former head of high performance), Stephen Dank (former contracted biochemist and sports scientist) and James Hird (former senior coach). Dank was found guilty by the AFL tribunal of a number of breaches related to the program. ==Background== In 2013 the Essendon Football Club was implicated in the Australian Crime Commission (ACC)'s report "Organised Crime and Drugs in Sport". The club conducted its own investigation into allegations of peptide use but also awaited findings from Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA)'s investigation. Following the release of the ACC report on 3 February 2013 the club's then chairman, David Evans, commissioned Ziggy Switkowski to conduct an independent report that he described as a "full external and independent review of governance and processes of the club". On 23 May 2013, the club's CEO, Ian Robson, resigned and agreed with the Switkowski report's assessment that "lack of proper process" occurred in 2012. In late July, club chairman Evans and fitness coach Dean Robinson both resigned, with the former stating, "I strongly believe that the best thing for the club at this stage is for a new chairperson in order to see through the next phase of this challenging and difficult time for our club." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Essendon Football Club supplements controversy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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