DAN CARTER’S club and agent sparked a new storm despite denying the world’s highest-paid rugby star tested positive for steroids.
Agent Simon Porter insists Carter had a Therapeutic Use Exemption when he took medication for a calf injury but his French club Racing 92 later said he was treated WITHOUT one.
Ex-New Zealand fly-half Carter, team-mate Joe Rokocoko and Argentine Juan Imhoff are accused of having traces of corticosteroids in a urine sample before June’s Top 14 final.
Porter revealed the No 10 had been given medication — probably cortisone — AFTER an application for a TUE.
He said: “There was no wrongdoing, it’s just a therapeutic use. Cortisone is a common drug used to treat pain and inflammation.”
Yet Racing 92 claimed they had NOT requested a TUE.
A club statement read: “All the medical acts carried out have been in total respect of international anti-doping rules.
“It is treatment administered in an authorised manner and not needing a TUE.”
French doping chiefs and the world anti-doping agency refused to comment.
Toulon, beaten by Racing in the final, will demand cash compensation if any player is found guilty of drug taking.
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