Steve Dank has told the ABC's 7.30 that Essendon coach James Hird was fully informed about the nature of the program the biochemist was paid to run at the club. Courtesy: 7.30, ABC
The scientist at the centre of Essendon's controversial performance supplements program says it was within the rules of the World Anti-Doping Agency. Courtesy: 7.30, ABC
The man at the centre of Essendon drug allegations has launched a $10 million defamation suit against various media outlets.
Sports scientist Steve Dank with the NRL's Manly Sea Eagles at training. Source: news.com.au
EMBATTLED sports scientist Stephen Dank has claimed Essendon Football Club officials, including coach James Hird, knew players were being treated with supplements.
In an explosive interview tonight Dank alleged Hird was fully aware of the program that saw players injected with substances.
"There was a collective involvement - you know it wasn't just Steve Dank," he told ABC's 7.30 journalist Caro Meldrum-Hanna.
"There was certainly input from people outside myself. There was a very significant involvement from Dean (Robinson) as the high-performance manager, there was detailed discussion with James Hird, there was detailed discussion with the club doctor."
The sports scientist proclaimed his innocence throughout the interview, saying he was a biochemist and supplement programs were regularly used at most top AFL clubs.
He denied injecting players with a banned substance and said he was "very surprised" when the club called a conference announcing it was unaware of what the program involved.
Dank denied peptides were injected but said up to four different peptide formulas could have been given to players.
Dank runs two other rejuvenation clinics in Victoria and NSW that he said ran programs separate to his work with elite football teams.
GHRP-6 or peptide 6, listed on Dank's clinic website, is a human growth hormone banned by the Australian Anti Doping Authority of Australia. He admitted he did sell the substance but denied it was used on elite athletes. He also rejected links with criminal gangs.
Essendon's former sports scientist Steve Dank has told the ABC's 7.30 that coaches at the club took supplements that are prohibited for players. Courtesy: 7.30, ABC
Dank also said fans would be naive to think Essendon was alone in its rigorous sports science push as AFL clubs chased an edge on their rivals.
Dank suggested every AFL club employed high-tech strategies in a bid to gain the ultimate on-field success.
"I don't think, you know, you'd be sort of foolish to think that Essendon were the only (club) that were looking at these sort of programs," Dank said.
"And I think when you think of what these players do on a week-to-week and a year-to-year basis, I think you've got 18 clubs that are all very well coached and obviously all have a very good high performance unit and they want cutting edge."
Earlier today the reporter who questioned Dank in the ABC interview said she found him "honest".
Meldrum-Hanna said Dank believed what he did was within the "rules and regulations".
Sports scientist a broken man: lawyer
"I found Steven Dank to be, I certainly found during the interview which was a lengthy one, that he was an honest individual," Meldrum-Hanna told the Triple-M Grill Team team this morning ahead of the airing of the interview.
"He sat there and answered every question that I put to them, and some of these were certainly pretty hairy ones, and there was at no time where he was ever willing to call off the interview.
"He sat there and endured a very long list of questions which started from his qualifications and training and right up to the time he left Essendon."
Dank's lawyers have said he is launching a $10 million defamation claim against various media outlets, alleging he has been falsely accused of selling illegal drugs to sportspeople.
"He's been enormously distressed at the outset, as was his family about the allegations," Dank's lawyer Gregory Stanton said.
Stanton said specifics had not been put to his client and that Mr Dank was "in total ignorance" about what professional misconduct was alleged.
"The claims arise out of false allegations in the media that the plaintiffs have sold illegal drugs to sportspeople."
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