‘Way off the mark’: AFL boss responds to Dick Pound’s criticism of the league’s illicit drugs policy

AFL CEO Andrew Dillon has responded to the founding president of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Dick Pound’s criticism of the league’s illicit drugs policy.

Pound compared the secret drug testing regime to the controversial state-run programs by East Germany which allowed athletes to cheat without being detected for many years.

“I think he’s way off the mark there, and I don’t think they are ones that I want to go into because I think they are ill-informed and wrong,” Dillon told Tony Jones on 3AW Mornings.

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Dillon also clarified the stance by the league in banning the ground invader from the Adelaide Geelong game for life, and also spoke on the new Governor-General Samantha Mostyn, the rules surrounding the lightning delay and the treatment of Jack Ginnivan by the umpires.

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