{"id":62065,"date":"2025-08-12T08:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T08:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/62065\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T08:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T08:16:08","slug":"former-player-tests-positive-for-performance-enhancing-substance-anti-doping-policy-sport-integrity-australia-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/62065\/","title":{"rendered":"Former player tests positive for performance enhancing substance, anti-doping policy, Sport Integrity Australia, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former AFL player reportedly tested positive for a performance-enhancing substance while playing in a lower-level competition following the end of his professional career. <\/p>\n

The player, who finished his AFL career in 2023, has this year been placed under provisional suspension, reports The Age\u2019s Jake Niall<\/a>. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s understood the player tested positive while playing in a lower-level league last year, and despite having put an end to his professional career by that stage, could still be tested under the AFL\u2019s Anti-Doping Code within 12 months of his AFL exit. <\/p>\n

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The report elected not to name the player in question. <\/p>\n

The player\u2019s test was undertaken by Sport Integrity Australia; the governing body, formerly known as ASADA, which aims to preserve fairness at all levels of Australian sport. <\/p>\n

Under the AFL Anti-Doping Code, if a player intentionally takes a prohibited substance to gain an advantage, they are subject to a maximum ban of four years. Local leagues, including the state competitions, are held to the same rules. <\/p>\n

In late 2024, ex-Melbourne player Joel Smith was suspended four years<\/a> by SIA for cocaine use and trafficking after turning up a positive result on a matchday test in August 2023. <\/p>\n

Fyfe: ‘It’s been an incredible journey!’ | 02:21<\/p>\n

But unlike Smith\u2019s circumstances, Niall reports the unnamed player in question\u2019s alleged breach was \u201cfor a substance that is banned both in and outside the competition\u201d. <\/p>\n

He noted also that positive results for performance-enhancing drugs were \u201cextremely rare\u201d in the AFL, as cases of positive tests for illicit substances are more common. <\/p>\n

Then-Collingwood players Josh Thomas and Lachie Keeffe copped two-year bans in 2015 after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs. <\/p>\n

The \u2018Essendon 34\u2019 that were banned for the 2016 season after four years\u2019 worth of investigation did not return positive tests for a banned substance but rather were suspended on circumstantial evidence they were administered with a banned substance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former AFL player reportedly tested positive for a performance-enhancing substance while playing in a lower-level competition following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[50088,64,63,689,31549,50085,25839,50077,1127,10124,2105,50078,50087,50091,50076,50090,49333,50081,647,677,50089,50082,50080,50086,50083,50079,50084,9207,672,85,660],"class_list":["post-62065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-anti-doping-policy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-sport","tag-banned-substance","tag-dylan-shiel","tag-ex-melbourne-player","tag-fox-footy","tag-fremantle-dockers","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-jake-niall","tag-joel-smith","tag-josh-thomas","tag-lachie-keeffe","tag-lower-level-competition","tag-luamon-lual","tag-matchday-test","tag-melbourne","tag-oceania","tag-performance-enhancing-drugs","tag-performance-enhancing-substance","tag-player-tests","tag-player-tests-positive","tag-players-reach","tag-positive-results","tag-positive-tests","tag-professional-career","tag-richmond-tigers","tag-sports","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}