Doping scandal in Rugby

The following from News24:-

 

“South African rugby was rocked on Tuesday with the confirmation that two players had tested positive during routine testing for using banned substances.

READ: SAIDS: Rugby worst doping violators in 2014

SA Rugby confirmed to supersport.com that they had been informed by the South African Institute for Drug Free Sport (SAIDS) that two players from two separate rugby unions had tested positive during recent testing that took place in local conditions and that the process for a hearing for these players would now follow its course.

SARU would not name the players, and said the normal protocol was to protect the players identities with the matter being referred back to SAIDS.

SAIDS Chief Executive Khalid Galant confirmed the same to supersport.com and said that the players had been informed of the positive test through their unions.

Players could ask for a B-sample to be tested, but this was not a mandatory next step in cases like these.

“In some cases players accept the findings and do not contest them, so as to have their suspension begin as soon as possible,” Galant told supersport.com

The players, whose names are known to supersport.com, will now need to respond to the findings and decide whether or not they will contest them.

If they are found guilty, they face bans between two and four years, depending on the outcome of their disciplinary hearings.”

 

Although names are not given subsequent reports to certain Kings players are involved.  That indeed would be no surprise – a franchise with a record of financial misrule will also be guilty of misrule in other aspets of the game.  The curse of  the Watsons on that benighted rugby franchise is clear  - the damage Cheeky Watson .did to rugby in the Eastern Cape is virtually limitless.    

 

 Sharks hooker given four year doping ban

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20th July 2016
Monde Hadebe has been banned for four years

Sharks Super Rugby hooker Monde Hadebe has been given a four year ban for a steroid-related doping offence.

Hadebe did not play for the Sharks in the 2016 Super Rugby season as he went to the Southern Kings on a trial basis but returned to Durban with an injury.

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The 25-year-old is the second Sharks hooker to be under a doping cloud as the Durban franchise also have former Springbok hooker Chiliboy Ralepelle on their books.

Ralepelle was given a two year doping ban which ran until April 10, 2016 and at the time was with Toulon. In 2010 he was sent home with Bjorn Basson after they tested positive for a banned substance.

The Chief executive officer for the SA Institute for Drug-Free Sport Khalid Galant confirmed to Sport24 that Hadebe tested positive for two forbidden forms of steroids.

Hadebe is not alone in being found guilty of doping as several players from slightly lower levels of competition domestically have fallen foul of doping charges.

The known offenders include Border Under-21 lock Chase Benito (four years), Griquas Under-21 loose forward Nico Graaff (two years) and Border’s Currie Cup-level loose forward Lukhanyo Nomzanga.

Former EP Kings flank Siyanda Mangaliso, first banned for doping in 2013, has been collared again, whilst it has also been established that a Boland Under-19 player has been handed a three-year ban although an appeal hearing is imminent in his case.

Hadebe’s ban brings the credibility of South African rugby into sharp focus as it also not the first time that the country has had such problems.

Hadebe made three appearances for the Sharks in Super Rugby 2015 – against the Force, Lions and Bulls.

Meanwhile Ralepelle is on tour with the Sharks as they face the Hurricanes in Wellington in a Super Rugby Quarter final on Saturday.

According to Galant a second high profile South African player has tested positive but his identity is being protected.

Read more: http://www.superxv.com/sharks-hooker-given-four-year-doping-ban/#ixzz4Ey9bSDWt

Steroid Boy Rapelle is on tour. Maybe a good idea to get a test.him ASAP

  SB - this guy was sent on loan to the KINGS.  

  SB - this guy was sent on loan to the KINGS.  

 The worst offenders are the French ,who seem to get away with it despite former players and management admitting a long history of using drugs especially speed and coke .

Yes he was on loan to the Kings- and the Watsons no doubt had some hand in proceedings.  However ChillyBoy came back from France for Steroid overuse.

  Schoolboy doping more rife than among Pros Wed, 20 Jul 2016 17:52

IN THE SPOTLIGHT: The headlines will be about the high-profile players, but doping in rugby is more prevalent among schoolboys than professionals.

A media storm erupted this week when - on social media - it was claimed that two Super Rugby players had been found guilty of doping violations.

Khalid Galant, Chief Executive Officer for the SA Institute for Drug-Free Sport, in an extensive interview with rugby365 said that from June 2015 to April 2016 the number of positive tests for rugby players were 18.

"Of those 18 there were two from Super Rugby," he said, adding: "The rest are from Currie Cup, Craven Week, Academy Week, Under-21 and Varsity Cup."

However, what was more concerning for Galant - than the two high-profile players - was there is still a high number of steroids and the number of positives among "Under-18 players" are still very prominent.

"Those are schoolboys who have growing bodies and are engaged in serious doping - with hormonal products such as steroids," he told rugby365.

"The concern is, where are they getting it?

"They can only get it on the black market.

"That means we have school children interacting with underground, nefarious characters who are basically drug dealers."

Galant confirmed seven of the names of the players who produced positive tests in the past year.

This include Sharks hooker Monde Hadebe, who has been banned for four years, after his results produced two forbidden forms of steroids.

The other 'big' cases is former Eastern Province Kings flank Siyanda Mangaliso, who produced a positive test for steroids. He was serving a sanction of two years and he was tested during his sanction and tested positive again.

His latest sanction has not been finalised, but he faces anything from four years to a lifetime ban.

The others revealed to rugby365 by Galant were Nomzanga Lukhanyo (Methylhexaneamine - eight-month ban), Benito Chase (steroids - four years), Stephan Bornman (Beta-2 Agonists - three years, although he is appealing the three-year ban), Nico Graaff (Methylhexaneamine (dimethylpentylamine) - two years) and Reginald Thabethe (steroids - four years).

Galant said it is difficult to say if doping violations are a growing problem in rugby.

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By Jan de Koning
@King365ed
@rugby365com

 

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They talk about problems at school level in the main.   In SA there are about 30 high schools sponsored by the private sector – where most of the future professional  rugby players  get their basic training.   They get professional coaching  - as well as all the gym and other training required and also get dietary advice as to enhancing of  physical development.

It is obvious not all professional players originate from the top schools and there is not pac at th school to cater for all potential sportsmen.    So the vast majority of pupils are in other – mostly government schools – where education is of a poor standard and extra-curricular activity – inclusive of sport development is basically non-existent.    They get no advice as to sport development and non as to physical development programmes.   For most pupils the way out seems to be usage of prohibited drugs  like steroids to make up what they could have got under proper programmes at schools. 

If you look at the situation as developing in the present scenario you will notice that most of the problems in fact originate from the Eastern Cape Province  - ie in the Kings franchise area.   The Eastern Cape is one of the poorest areas in SA.  Problem is that irresponsible and clueless governance  results in virtually no progress being made to urn the situation around.    Insted of laying a  sound  environment in schools iro of  sport  development – the Government insists on quota0-selections after the damge has already been done by themselves.