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By AFP 
8h ago
JOHANNESBURG – Aphiwe Dyantyi, Springbok winger and 2018 World Rugby Breakthrough Player of the Year, received a four-year suspension for ingesting three banned substances, a senior South African rugby official told AFP.
“This long-standing case finally ended and Aphiwe received a four-year ban,” said the official, who requested anonymity because he is not an authorized spokesperson.
The executive director of the South African Institute for Drug-Free Sport (SAIDS), Khalid Galant, is expected to make an announcement on Monday confirming the ban.
The ban prohibits Dyantyi from playing rugby until August 12, 2023, 14 days before the defense, which South Africa played 13 internationals in 2018, turns 29.
Dyantyi tested positive for methandienone, methyltestosterone and LGD-4033, which are all on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s banned substances list, while attending a Springboks camp in August last year.
Later he sent a B sample and it also tested positive.
Dyantyi insists that he never “knowingly took any prohibited substance, but instead drank from a friend’s bottle during a gym session two days before his urine sample was taken.”
Born in Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape, the heart of black rugby in South Africa, Dyantyi burst into the spotlight while playing for the Johannesburg Lions in the 2018 Super Rugby competition.
His power, pace and attempt to score on the left wing soon attracted the attention of new Springboks coach Rassie Erasmus, and he debuted with a spectacular 42-39 win over England at his home ground, Ellis Park.
Dyantyi scored a try as South Africa recovered from a 24-3 deficit in the match that marked Siya Kolisi’s debut as Springbok Test’s first black captain.
The powerful winger played in the other 12 international matches during 2018, scoring another five attempts, including two against Argentina in Durban and New Zealand in Wellington.
His ban comes a month after hooker Mahlatse ‘Chiliboy’ Ralepelle, the first black player to captain the Springboks in a non-trial game, lost an appeal against an eight-year ban for using an agent. anabolic.
AFP
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