Two top Premiership rugby union players test positive for cocaine use after random drugs test
TWO Premiership rugby stars were busted for cocaine use last season.
The unnamed players at unknown clubs were both fined £5,000 and sent on a drug rehab course.
Two Premiership players have tested positive for cocaineGetty Images
If either are caught out again then under RFU and Premiership rules they will both be named and shamed.
Both the RFU and Premiership Rugby believe their stance in dealing with players taking illegal recreation drugs is working, despite another two separate cases of substance abuse the season before.
Nigel Meville appeared to indicate that he felt the sport was in good shape with regard to drug useGetty Images
Nigel Melville from the RFU said: “The RFU and its partners take their clean sport responsibilities extremely seriously and this is reflected in the level of investment in anti-doping in the game as a whole.
“We can be cautiously optimistic, but never complacent, about the current position.”
In total 1,001 tests were taken – 282 more than in 2014-15 and almost double the figure from 2013-14.
England’s international players were tested 360 times last term, up from 135 a season before – because of the Rugby World Cup in 2015 and build-up to last year’s Olympic Games.
Former England prop Matt Stevens tested positive for cocaine in 2009 and was banned for two yearsTimes Newspapers LtdStevens was sacked by Bath before returning to action with Saracens in 2011Empics
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