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International rugby star handed four-year ban

4. Aphiwe Dyantyi

Dyantyi – who was named as World Rugby’s Breakthrough Player of the Year in 2018 – has pleaded his innocence since he was originally informed of the failed test on August 13 2019, from a sample taken on July 2.

Following that positive test, the 26-year-old requested for his B-sample to also be tested, but the South African Institute for Drug Free Sport (Saids) confirmed on Friday that the second sample matched the first, with banned substances metandienone, methyltestosterone and LGD-4033 all present.

That means his original four year ban stands. It doesn’t pay to be a dope.

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