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International rugby star handed four-year ban

2. Johan Ackermann

The second row was banned for drugs in 1997 – just four games after making his Springboks debut – when a friend in the police force told him that taking nandrolone would speed up his recovery from a knee injury

Ackermann spent the next two years continuing his work as a firearms instructor in Pretoria before making his return to rugby .

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