Strange bruising to players at the time suggests their involvement in illegal supplements.
Former Cornulla Sharks head trainer Trent Elkin has vehemently denied using banned peptides on himself to see if there were any sides affects.
Elkin was the head trainer at the time when he hired sports scientist Stephan Dank, who is considered one of the key witnesses in the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority probe into illegal drugs.
Both Elkin and Dank have denied they have ever condoned or administered any illegal peptides.
However, the independent Kavanagh report commissioned by Cronulla, is said to reveal Elkin used the drugs on himself and had blood testing done to ascertain any affects.
“After the substances CJC-1295 and GHRP-6 were supplied to the club Elkin took it on himself to test the substances by self-administering them and then having his blood tested,” the report said.
“Elkin reported that the testing was all fine. A number of players say that Trent Elkin represented to them that he was testing these substances on himself.”
Cronulla players who are suspected to have been involved with the alleged blood doping are set to begin being interviewed on Monday.
However, the net might have started closing in on three players who showed unusual bruising at around the time in question in the 2011 NRL season.
Current Cronulla player Anthony Tupou and former Sharks Taulima Tautai and Issac Gordon were seen to be suffering from excessive bruising, not commonly found in people despite them playing a heavy-contact sport.
Fairfax newspapers report the bruising is noted in the Kavanagh report as a sign of their participation in the illegal program, along with sources revealing a paper-trail exists between former Cronulla football manager Darren Mooney, head trainer Mark
Noakes, physiotherapist Konrad Schultz and club doctor David Givney, who were all sacked before the first game in 2013.
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