Who Faced a 4-Year Rugby Ban?
Theodore Cummerata
2025-05-20 01:02:30
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A Welsh Premiership rugby player has been banned for four years after the presence of a prohibited substance was discovered. UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) notified the player of the discovery, but he alleged that the substance was in his system due to a contaminated supplement. The player also disputed the four-year suspension, so the case was referred to the National Anti-Doping Panel who upheld the ban as no proof of a contaminated supplement could be found. The suspension began on a provisional basis in August 2023, and will expire in August 2027.
Kirstin Waters
2025-05-20 00:43:01
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Former Wales scrum-half Rhys Webb has been banned from rugby for four years after testing positive for a growth hormone. The 35-year-old was provisionally suspended by the club after testing positive for a synthetic growth hormone in an unexpected check by the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) last July. As a result, he has been handed a four-year ban which has effectively ended his career in professional rugby.
Jerry Jaskolski
2025-05-20 00:41:10
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Welsh rugby union player Bevan Jay has been banned from sport for a period of four years following Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRVs) for the Presence and Use of a Prohibited Substance. The NADP tribunal was unable to reduce the applicable period of Ineligibility prescribed in the rules and imposed a four-year ban from sport on Mr Jay. Mr Jay is entitled to credit for the time he spent provisionally suspended, so his ban is deemed to have commenced on 16 August 2023 (the date his provisional suspension started) and will expire on 15 August 2027.
Kathleen Schimmel
2025-05-20 00:20:47
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Lydney RFC player Kurt Brown has been suspended from playing rugby for four years after tests showed positive use of steroids in a urine sample in February. The 29-year-old allegedly injected himself twice a week for at least three months, taking guidance from a YouTube video, with no medical supervision after receiving a recommendation from his friend at the gym. Mr. Brown claims he started taking the steroid nandrolone, a synthetic form of testosterone, in May 2019 after a friend at the gym recommended the brand Deca-Durabolin to aid recovery of his shoulder. The ban was activated from March 13, 2020, and will last until March 12, 2024.
Millie Runte
2025-05-19 23:50:38
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South Africa World Cup winner Elton Jantjies has been suspended for four years after being found guilty of using the banned substance Clenbuterol, the South African Institute for Drug Free Sport (SAIDS) announced on Thursday. Flyhalf Jantjies, now 33, was part of the Springbok squad that lifted the World Cup trophy in 2019, but not the side that claimed the 2023 trophy in France last year. He said in August he had tested positive for Clenbuterol but maintained his innocence and added he was "shocked and sad".
Sim Kessler
2025-05-19 23:31:02
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Former Dragons favourite Rynard Landman has been banned from rugby for three years after failing a drugs test. He admitted the charge but said he had used nandrolone between June and August, 2023, when he had retired from professional rugby. He was banned for four years, with one year taken off for his acceptance of the charge.
Marcelle Quigley
2025-05-19 23:01:48
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Former Dragons captain Rynard Landman has been banned for three years after testing positive for a banned substance whilst playing for Newport RFC. UKAD subsequently charged Mr Landman with ADRVs for the Presence and Use of a Prohibited Substance. “Mr Landman admitted the ADRVs and the asserted period of Ineligibility (four years) within twenty days of the Charge Letter. Per Article 10.8.1 of the UK Anti-Doping Rules, Mr Landman was therefore able to reduce the asserted four-year period of Ineligibility to three years.
Arlene Daniel
2025-05-19 22:32:09
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Welsh rugby union player Joshua Hicks has been banned from all sport for a period of four years following Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRVs) for the Presence and Use of Prohibited Substances.
Mr. Hicks is banned from all sport for a period of 4 years from 16 December 2022 to 15 December 2026 inclusive.
Alec Lang
2025-05-19 22:23:22
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Joshua Hicks, 28, who plays for Pembroke RFC, was selected to provide an in-competition urine sample on October 8, 2022, by UK Anti-Doping (UKAD).
UKAD notified him that he may have committed anti-doping rule violations (ADRVs) on December 16, 2022, and that he was provisionally suspended.
On June 28, Hicks accepted the four-year ban and no longer wanted a hearing before the independent panel.
Hicks has now been banned from all sport for the four-year period between December 16, 2022, and December 15, 2026, inclusive.
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