Cory Dell'Olio (born 8 December 1989) is an
Australian rules football player who last played for the
Essendon Football Club in the
Australian Football League, before he was delisted at the end of the 2014 season. He was recruited with pick #29 in the
2011 Rookie Draft, having played as a small forward for the
South Fremantle Football Club in the
WAFL.
Prior to round 4 of the
2012 AFL season he was elevated to the senior list to replace
Brent Prismall who was on the long-term injury list with an
ACL injury. He made his debut that weekend against , starting the game as the substitute player and replacing
Michael Hurley in the third quarter.
He was delisted by Essendon at the end of the 2014 season after only playing three games in 2013 and five in 2014. He returned to South Fremantle the following year.
Dell'Olio, along with 33 other Essendon players, was found guilty of using a banned performance-enhancing substance,
thymosin beta-4
Thymosin beta-4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''TMSB4X'' gene. Recommended INN (International Nonproprietary Name) for thymosin beta-4 is 'timbetasin', as published by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The protein consists (in ...
, as part of
Essendon's sports supplements program during the 2012 season. He and his team-mates were initially found not guilty in March 2015 by the AFL Anti-Doping Tribunal,
but a guilty verdict was returned in January 2016 after an appeal by the
World Anti-Doping Agency
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA; french: Agence mondiale antidopage, AMA) is a foundation initiated by the International Olympic Committee based in Canada to promote, coordinate, and monitor the fight against drugs in sports. The agency's key ...
. He was suspended for two years which, with backdating, ended in November 2016; as a result, he served approximately fourteen months of his suspension and missed the entire 2016 WAFL season.
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1989 births
Living people
Essendon Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Western Australia
South Fremantle Football Club players
Australian sportspeople in doping cases
Bendigo Football Club players
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