The findings of the enquiry are amazing. Pages and pages of stuff, of which I can only quote small fragments. The entire directorship of the AWF was implicated in a coverup concerning the use of public funds to supply anabolic steroids to their weightlifters. And they were protecting Lyn Jones who was at the centre of the controversy, in effect dismissing the findings by refusing to act on them. Instead, as noted by the quotations on the following page, some of the weightlifters who gave evidence, including my friend Michael, had their membership suspended from the federation. He was not allowed to compete, and thereby his weightlifting career was effectively terminated. This is the kind of power the governing officials have over the sport and the athletes. When the final report was released. It was so damning, that Weightlifting was eventually thrown out of the Institute, and has never returned. Australian weightlifting had lost. In the following two pages are excerpts from the conclusions of the report.
Mr. Sam Coffa. Alleged to be part of a coverup in the supply of anabolic steroids to athletes.