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Doping doubts cast shadow over WCup
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THE Rugby World Cup starts this week with the sport facing new doping doubts and even its global chief Bernard Lapasset says banned substances are the biggest danger facing rugby.
World Rugby this month confirmed a two-year drug ban for former South African hooker Chiliboy Ralepelle. And revelations that French prosecutors are investigating pharmacists in Toulon, after being alerted by the country’s anti-doping agency, emerged in the week that France left for its World Cup base in England.
The problem has also been acknowledged in the tournament’s host country.
RWC blood and urine tests are to be carried out by UK Anti-Doping. It has refused to say how many tests will be carried out but it knows rugby well.
Of the 47 people on the UKAD banned list 16 are from rugby union; 12 from rugby league.
Many of those banned in Britain and other rugby powers are still young. In New Zealand, Finn Hart-Strawbridge, 19, a former young New Zealand Barbarian, was banned for two years after admitting buying a banned substance online. His lawyer said Hart-Strawbridge bought the human growth hormone precursor GHRP-6 as a “joke.”
But many coaches and experts say there is intense pressure on young players to bulk up in a sport that often relies on brute force to get the tactical edge that is the beauty of rugby.
World Rugby president Lapasset has called doping “the biggest danger for the integrity of the sport.”
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