Imprisoned drug dealer Cantab Josh Townshends’ identified clients
numbered around a 100.
Over 40 per cent of them were involved in the sport of
rugby, one at ‘elite’ level.
If what-is in the public domain is to be believed.
That’s details that are being drip feed to the public as
each separate sporting code deals with the fall-out.
This is an astonishingly high percentage given rugby playing
numbers are not anywhere close to say Kiwi cyclists.
And when you think of illegal anabolic steroid and hormone
abuse, it’s cycling most people think of as the main ‘offender’ along with body-building.
And whilst N.Z Ice Hockey has dealt-out two-year bans to two national representatives who purchased products from Townshends Clenbuterol NZ
website, all we’ve heard from N.Z Rugby is promises to co-operate.
Mutterings of wanting the sport to be clean.
No cathartic name and shaming a-la N.Z Ice Hockey.
Where are N.Z Rugby's “tough responses” given the Townshend ‘went down’ in May?
If rugby in N.Z so ‘clean’ why have Drug Free Sport NZ instigated
drugs tests at schoolboy rugby level!?
Surely rugby players themselves must want to know who these drug
cheats are?
This situation is yet another case of N.Z Rugby wiping
things under the carpet in the hope it goes away.
Sponsors want nothing to do with a sport that’s tainted with
drugs.
Rugby is staring down a barrel here.
