Crackdown on school drug cheats
21 Jan 2013
Schoolboy rugby players caught doping could be suspended for three months or more or face expulsion.
The Cape Argus reports that a new testing programme launches on Monday, spearheaded by the SA Institute of Drug-Free Sport (Saids), which aims to eradicate a growing trend of steroid and drug use among teenagers in schools.
‘The testing will occur at any time and will not only be limited to athletes,’ said Saids chief executive Khalid Grant.
Substances that will be prohibited according to the programme include diuretics (which mask the presence of performance-enhancing drugs by flushing them out of the system), stimulants and steroids. Around 100 of South Africa’s top schools have signed up for the programme that will allow a school’s principle or Saids delegate to test any pupil suspected of doping.
According to Rapport, 18 out of 62 children independently tested in the past six months had positive results for drugs so dangerous they could lead to death.
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22 Jan 2013, 07:47 am
@grant10-299:
By the way, Fed reached his 35th consecutive slam 1/4 final. The silly American was trying to be funny when he said 137th…
22 Jan 2013, 08:42 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-295:
So no apology huh?
22 Jan 2013, 10:46 am
South Africans need to get away from the mindset that schools rugby is where its at…there should be emphasis on club and provincial rugby for honours.
It’s almost childish how fanatical schools rugby has continued to be highlighted as vitally important in the South African mentality.
Time to move into the 21st Century chaps. Develop a young man’s basic rugby skills before making him into a wrecking ball before his 19th birthday.
22 Jan 2013, 13:59 pm
” Once more…” the immature and childish and utterly desperate(for truth and any counter, let alone a genuine one) indulge in changing planets with totally emotional outbursts of rubbish.
How do I know? There is no substantiation and cannot be other than rumour, of such by those who abhor the noble principle of world NON-RACISM.
The Armstrong saga has been substantiated ’til the wandering cows have come home.
“Once more” a tick in the column that says you are just confused,ignorant of the facts, stupid and worthless.
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