Player failed a world cup drugs test

According the BBC a player has failed a drugs test during the world cup.

Apparently this players team exited the tournament after the pool phase.

Any guesses? (I'm praying it's not an English international, i don't think i can bare any more bad news!)

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Reports say it was from team that didn't qualify for quarters

bedfordwelsh hopefully you are right. It would rule out Matt Stevens

This was on last nights news down here,I thought tvnz said that it wasnt a player from one of the teams that played in the final.

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Japan's Ryohei Yamanaka tested positive for methyltestosterone, which was contained in cream he used to assist the growth of his moustache, and he was banned for two years.

If he was really just trying to grow his moustache then that's very unfortunate. But also quite funny.

An unnamed player failed a drugs test during the Rugby World Cup, the International Rugby Board has revealed.

The player's identity has been withheld but the IRB confirmed he plays for a nation that failed to qualify for the quarter-finals of the competition


Thats off the BBC sports page.

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Japan's Ryohei Yamanaka tested positive for methyltestosterone, which was contained in cream he used to assist the growth of his moustache, and he was banned for two years.

If he was really just trying to grow his moustache then that's very unfortunate. But also quite funny.

Cheating Movember! That's appalling! What's the punishment...? A lip wax?

Now which team would have been into the viagra?

I wonder if it was a Samoan?
Of have they had enough scandal from the last world cup?