Japan Fly-Half In A Bit Of A 'Mo'ddle

[Gavin]

Japan fly-half Ryohei Yamanaka is set to miss the World Cup after testing positive for a steroid cream used to try to grow a moustache.
Head coach John Kirwan said he expects the International Rugby Board to hand the 22-year-old a two-year ban after he failed a doping test during the Asian Five Nations in Hong Kong last month.
"He's got a hair-growth cream to try and grow a 'mo' (moustache)," Kirwan told Reuters.
"Apparently he's done that and it had a steroid in it and he didn't know.
"Which is sad because he'll get banned for sure. It threw our plans a wee bit out because ideally for the World Cup you need to take three (fly-halves).
"He'll be lucky if gets six months.
"He'll probably get two years. I spoke to him at the time. I don't think he was aware of the severity of it. We spent 24 hours trying to find out what he had taken.
"It was a little tube of hair-growth cream. He just didn't think. Apparently he has failed the (B sample) too. From what I gather he's innocent but (the IRB) take a dim view.
"The difficult thing for me is that he's a young guy we were trying to bring through, hoping to take to the World Cup,"added the former All Black player and Italy coach.
"We were hoping he was going to kick on next year."

http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,3818_7001104,00.html

Probably one of the strangest ways of getting banned...

 

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