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
STEPHEN Dank says fans would be naive to think Essendon is alone in its rigorous sports science push as AFL clubs seek an edge on their rivals.
In an interview that will air on the 7.30 Report tonight, Dank suggests every AFL club employs 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 says.
"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".
The ABC's 7.30 Report journalist Caro Meldrum-Hanna said Dank believed what he did was within the "rules and regulations".
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"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, who also worked with NRL clubs, speaks at length in a pre-recorded interview for the first time since AFL club Essendon revealed it had concerns over supplements supplied to players.
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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."
The ABC News website has reported Dank says during the interview he did not have any "specific" reasons why he had been singled out.
"Obviously because I manage the supplement program, obviously the finger was going to, I guess, be pointed in my direction," he said.
"I've got no specific reasons why.
"But, you know, obviously because of my involvement and that was obviously an area that I was managing, if they were going to point the finger they were going to point the finger towards me."
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