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West Coast Eagles’ Willie Rioli gets backdated two-year AFL ban after long anti-doping review
West Coast Eagles’ forward Willie Rioli has been hit with a two-year suspension for doping offences in 2019.
Key points:
- Backdating of the penalty means Rioli can return to the field in August
- It has been 18 months since the premiership forward played at AFL level
- The 25-year-old faced a maximum four-year ban
Rioli will be eligible to return to football for the West Coast Eagles this season, after the AFL confirmed the premiership player’s suspension had been backdated.
Rioli was provisionally suspended during the 2019 AFL finals campaign after allegedly tampering with the urine sample, and tested positive to cannabis a fortnight later.
He was found guilty of three breaches of the AFL’s anti-doping code, two relating to tampering with a urine…
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