Rioli faces ban of up to four years after anti-doping test‘Something other than urine’ found in test jarWest Coast have many questions that need answers after Willie Rioli’s shock Asada ban but the most pressing query is whether the stunning development has derailed their AFL premiership defence. The Eagles face Geelong in a knockout semi-final at the MCG on Friday night still reeling from the news that Rioli faces a suspension of up to four years due to an adverse finding for urine substitution in an Asada anti-doping test.
On Thursday, the league’s general counsel Andrew Dillon announced a joint AFL-Asada investigation would be launched to determine how, what West Coast football chief Craig Vozzo characterised as “something other than urine”, came to be in Rioli’s sample jar during an anti-doping test on 20 August.