Warney

[Bartros]

From what I have just heard Warne knows the result but can keep it underwraps until the hearing next week!!!

Long Live the mite and power of
Shane Morwood (member of 1990 team,1988 Vic rep)

[JLC]

The result is he is positive in both samples. Australia will send over Hauritz to replace him

jlc

Symonds picked on potential for the fifth year running ;)

To be great is to be misunderstood

Essendon 2000 premiers
2001 runners up
2002 fifth
2003 ????
The slide continues

[JLC]

Second test positive
By Michael Warner
February 18, 2003

SHANE WARNE faces a maximum two-year ban from cricket after a second urine test tested positive for a banned diuretic.


Locked out - and he faces the same fate from the game.

The Australian Sports Drug Agency is believed to have informed Warne yesterday that the second sample also tested positive.

The B-test came from the same test conducted by the agency at the SCG on January 22 this year.

Under ASDA protocol, Warne has seven days to ask for an internal inquiry or appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

Warne - who spent the day locked in talks with lawyers and public relations advisers - is preparing a defence to explain how the diuretic came to be in his system.

Diuretics are banned under International Cricket Council laws because of their ability to mask performance-enhancing and muscle-building drugs, including steroids. But Warne claims he was given a single diuretic tablet by his mother Brigitte for vanity purposes on the eve of a press conference to announce his pending retirement from one-day cricket on January 22.

His mother sometimes uses the prescription blood pressure pills as a weight-loss aid.

It emerged yesterday that Warne's lawyers are expected to argue that the type of diuretic used by Warne was not strong enough to hide traces of steroids. He faces a possible two-year ban from all cricket unless he is able to prove exceptional circumstances.

ASDA spokesman Shawn Winnett said yesterday he could not comment on the result of Warne's second sample.

"Technically the process is still only between us and Shane," Mr Winnett said.

Victorian Supreme Court Justice Bill Gillard - who chaired the ACB's two previous anti-doping hearings - yesterday ruled himself out of the Warne case. Justice Gillard revealed that he had acted for Warne during a "procedural matter" 10 years ago.

Meanwhile, the ACB is expected to wait until after the Warne hearing before announcing a replacement for the World Cup squad in South Africa.

Former off-spinner Peter Taylor yesterday was selected to sit on the three-person Australian Cricket Board anti-doping committee. Taylor played 13 Tests for Australia but was dumped from the side to make way for Warne in January 1992. He did not play Test cricket again.

Queensland Justice Glen Williams and medical specialist Dr Susan White complete the ACB panel that will decide Warne's cricketing fate.

But a date for the hearing remains unclear because the champion leg spinner is yet to notify the board of the findings of the test of his B-sample.



Symonds picked on potential for the fifth year running ;)

To be great is to be misunderstood

Essendon 2000 premiers
2001 runners up
2002 fifth
2003 ????
The slide continues

[JLC]

Warne: new drug claim
February 19 2003
By Roy Masters, Jacquelin Magnay

Analysis of Shane Warne's positive drug test indicates that the Australian cricket star must have taken more than one banned diuretic tablet.

This contradicts statements by Warne, 33, that he took just one Moduretic tablet, supplied by his mother Brigitte in the days leading up to his January 22 news conference announcing his retirement from one-day cricket.

A source close to the investigation said yesterday that Warne's drug test produced a result which reflected the use of more than one diuretic tablet.

Diuretics are banned in sport as they can mask steroid use, while they also can be used to lose weight rapidly.

"Warne must have taken more than one tablet to get the effect he has registered," the source said.

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Warne's solicitor, Ian McCubbin, said last night he was unaware off the allegation. "This is the first I've heard of it. I can't add anything to it," Mr McCubbin said.

Warne could not be reached for comment last night, but Warne's father-in-law, Mr B. L. Callahan, told The Age his son-on-law had "gone underground".

The drug analysis, prepared at the Australian Sports Drug Agency (ASDA) laboratory, would also be studied for any evidence of drugs the diuretic may have masked, such as minute levels of steroids not reported earlier because they may have been below standard thresholds, the source said.

Previous drugs tests given to Warne over his international career may also be used to establish if there has been a change to his profile pattern.

After the revelations of the positive test earlier this month, Warne read a statement upon his return to Melbourne from the World Cup in South Africa on February 12 in which he said: "The fluid tablet I took before appearing to announce my retirement from one-day cricket was given to me by my mum."

The process that could either exonerate the world's most successful slow bowler or end his career stalled yesterday as Warne's legal team deliberated over whether to lodge a technical complaint about the ASDA's testing procedure.

Warne's case received a further setback yesterday when the world's leading anti-doping official ridiculed the cricketer's excuse for taking the drug, and warned that a mishandling of the Warne case threatened Australia's reputation.

The chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency, Dick Pound, was unimpressed with Warne's explanation.

"Poisoned by his mother? It is good, very good. It ranks up there with the one, 'I got it from the toilet seat'," Pound said.



Symonds picked on potential for the fifth year running ;)

To be great is to be misunderstood

Essendon 2000 premiers
2001 runners up
2002 fifth
2003 ????
The slide continues

[Pies Premiers 2003]

Its not looking good for shane.....if he has taken more then one...he cannot be trusted...this is not the time nor the place to be lying....

SHAME SHANE SHAME

As much as it kills me too say...the full force of the governing law must be put into place.....


let the chant begin....nar nar nar nar, nar nar nar hey hey hey GOODBYE..nar nar nar nar


THE PIES GO MARCHING ON

[Donny]

>> A source close to the investigation said yesterday that Warne's drug test produced a result which reflected the use of more than one diuretic tablet.

"Warne must have taken more than one tablet to get the effect he has registered," the source said.
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'A source close to the investigation' ??!! Very poor journalism from Roy and Jacqui.

I just heard on ABC radio that the two diuretic substances found in his sample are to be found in one Moduretic (a prescription blood pressure pill) tablet.

People who are jumping in, calling Warne a drug cheat and a liar, may be right but the above is a good example of how the media (some journos anyway) can get it wrong.



Donny.

THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN !!!!

[JLC]

Warney should just blame "joe the camera man" again

jlc

Symonds picked on potential for the fifth year running ;)

To be great is to be misunderstood

Essendon 2000 premiers
2001 runners up
2002 fifth
2003 ????
The slide continues

[MrsTarrant]

LoL JLC give Warney a break the poor guy!

[CQ]

yeh, sounds pretty suss to me!!

TARKO TARKO MAN!
I WANT TO BE A TARKO MAN!

[Pies Premiers 2003]

sorry to say it...but warne does not deserve any breaks....

he made a mistake...yes

is it excuseable...no



THE PIES GO MARCHING ON

[JLC]

Warne thinks he is above the law

Give the Chinese swimmers a break ?? Aussies cant cry foul when its one of our own......Warne got busted....he needs to accept responsibility for his actions

jlc

Symonds picked on potential for the fifth year running ;)

To be great is to be misunderstood

Essendon 2000 premiers
2001 runners up
2002 fifth
2003 ????
The slide continues

[Donny]

The ASDA have dismissed the above newspaper article as ridiculous.

Donny.

THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN !!!!

[This message has been edited by MAGFAN8 (edited 19 February 2003).]

[JLC]

People can make excuses for Warne all they like but lets face facts every scandal or event has never been Warnes fault there is always a scape goat

jlc

Symonds picked on potential for the fifth year running ;)

To be great is to be misunderstood

Essendon 2000 premiers
2001 runners up
2002 fifth
2003 ????
The slide continues

[London Dave]

He's either stupid or a cheat...one or the other. I'd wait until the hearing is over, though if the press is correct, it doesn't look good for Mr Warne.

[STOKA35]

warne is one of the greatest cricketers in history . if they made an example of lehman by suspending him for 5 games i expect the acb will set an example of this case by suspending him for a year even how minor this pill he took was this could be the end?