Bok wing gets ban
The SA doping body yesterday confirms a four-year ban for Springbok wing Aphiwe Dyantyi for using three prohibited substances.
The South African Institute for Drug-Free Sport confirmed yesterday Springbok and Lions wing Aphiwe Dyantyi has been banned from rugby for four years because of doping.
In a statement, the institute said it accepted the decision made by the Independent Doping Hearing Panel.
The three-person panel accepted the athlete’s guilty plea to the doping charge.
They found that he had failed to satisfy the burden of proof to establish that his positive dope test was not intentional.
The panel relied on the framework for sanctions in the World Anti-Doping Code that outlines a sanction of four years for the doping offence in this matter. Dyantyi has effectively been banned from participating in sport from 13 August 2019, when he was provisionally suspended, to 12 August 2023. The athlete’s rights are reserved to seek relief through lodging an appeal should he believe that he has grounds for that.
The 2018 World Rugby Breakthrough Player of the Year was tested randomly while in a Springbok training camp months before the Rugby World Cup last year.
The winger tested positive for metandienone, methyltestosterone and LGD-4033, which are all on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s banned substances list.
He subsequently submitted a B sample and it also tested positive.
Dyantyi insisted he did not knowingly take any banned substance.
The ban follows shortly after another former Bok hooker, Chiliboy Ralepelle, received an eight-year ban for using illegal substances.
I did not knowlingly take banned substances