JOHN COATES: 23 FEBRUARY 2018
President Australian Olympic Committee
Dear Mr Coates
As explained in earlier correspondence, I have spent over 11,000 hours on the ASADA/AFL/Essendon saga and have distributed over one million words.
I am comfortably satisfied that the enclosed document provides irrefutable proof that the Court of Arbitration for Sport panellists, who included the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales James Spigelman AC QC, who heard the case, on this occasion were biased, inept and arguably corrupt.
Unfortunately, at this stage only Alan Jones (2GB); Warwick Hadfield (Radio National); Tracey Holmes (ABC); Michael Warner (Herald Sun) and Graham Cornes (The Adelaide Advertiser) seem to care about the greatest injustice in Australian sporting history.
In contrast to you, I don’t have any skin in the game, and have never been paid a cent for my work. Nevertheless, I have devoted nearly five years fighting for justice. To my knowledge, as president of Court of Arbitration for Sport, it is in your interests, to ensure you are not a member of an organisation that delivers corrupt decisions. To that end, I urge you to:
- Take an hour to read the enclosed document
- Explain to WADA and ASADA that it is in their interests to voluntarily overturn the decision to find 34 players guilty of being administered Thymosin Beta-4.
If I can spend 11,000 hours with no skin in the game, I am sure that you are honourable enough to devote about an hour of your time to right a great injustice. CAS’s and your reputation as a member of CAS depend upon it.
Bruce Francis
Letter 2:
John Coates 12 November 2019
Dear Mr Coates
Please find attached my Reader’s Digest version that identifies irrefutable proof of CAS ineptness, bias and arguably corruption during the WADA-Essendon Appeal hearing. My use of the words, corruption, biased and ineptness are based on my dictionary’s definition.
Corruption: “The process by which a word or expression is changed from its original state to one regarded as erroneous or debased.”
Biased: “Unfairly prejudiced for or against someone or something”.
Inept: “Showing a lack of skill or ability: not done well.”
- As the head of Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), as the man responsible for Justice Spigelman and his two fellow panellists and by not taking any action to correct their unforgivable errors, your reputation, too, is being diminished.
- Unlike the poor head of ASADA David Sharpe, you have the perfect opportunity to turn that around in one fell swoop.
- You have all the evidence you need to acknowledge that the CAS panel got it unforgivably wrong, that the evidence used against the Essendon players was severely doctored, and that the case should never have gone beyond the AFL hearing. You will be doing not just yourself a huge favour but sport in general as people, whether elite athletes or mums and dads of youngsters who might show a talent for sport, again feel confident that the processes set up to protect them do exactly that, rather than victimise them.
- Clean athletes deserve protection from dirty athletes. Clean athletes deserve protection from dirty officials.
- Mr Coates, none of us likes to be a witness to a crime. But if we do, we have a moral and legal obligation to see justice is done. You are now in possession of information that proves a metaphorical ‘crime’ was committed. You have no choice but to do all in your power to rectify the injustice to the 34 Essendon players.
Bruce Francis