Two Springboks are returning home from South Africa’s tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland, having returned positive samples for a banned stimulant.
Bok hooker Chiliboy Ralepelle and wing Bjorn Basson returned positive samples following the Test against Ireland on November 6.
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Six Nations Rugby Ltd – who administers the November internationals – informed the South African Rugby Union of the positive Tests on Sunday.
As a result the pair are provisionally suspended from all rugby and returned to South Africa on Monday.
Basson injured an ankle in the Boks’ 29-25 win over Wales in Cardiff at the weekend and was due to return anyway.
The players were randomly drawn for testing by anti-doping officials following the Test in Dublin.
The players have the right to request that their ‘B’ sample be tested.
The pair returned an adverse analytical finding for Methylhexaneamine, a “non-specified stimulant” on the prohibited substances list of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
It is scheduled to be re-classified as a “specified stimulant” from 1 January 2011.
* Methylhexaneamine (Forthan, Forthane, Floradrene, Geranamine), also known as dimethylamylamine (DMAA), is a drug and simple aliphatic amine used as a nasal decongestant, as well as treatment for hypertrophied or hyperplasic oral tissues, and as an active ingredient in party pills in New Zealand. Once trademarked under Forthane by Eli Lilly in 1971, the trademark has since expired, and so methylhexaneamine should not be confused with isoflurane, whose proprietary name in Australia is also Forthane. It is a vasoconstrictor, and can be administered by inhalation to the nasal mucosa to exert its effect. The trademark Geranamine is currently owned by Proviant Technologies. Methylhexaneamine is also a constituent of flower oil, sold as an integral component of nutritional supplements. – Source: Wikipedia
@ grootblousmile:23 – From what a I have read it was a British tourist. Why was she in Gugulethu?
Why was Chilli sent home?
Farked nose 🙂
32@ Pam Anderson:
Hehehe
31@ Puma:
Yeah, why was she in Gugulethu at night..
See, we here in SA know that we take small little precautionary measures to ensure our safety… and have learned to a degree to be wide awake, what to avoid ect…. the overseas tourist not.
It’s like me going walkabout in the seediest part of Harlem, USA at midnight…. I stand a serious chance of being mugged, the white n@gger that I am…. hehehe
… or I stand a serious chance of having to kick some serious butt to stay unmugged…. ons is mossie sussies nie… hehehe
@ grootblousmile:34 – Gbs, Totally correct, not sure why she was in Gugulethu at night. Tourists should be warned where to travel and be safe in our country. You know during the whole of the world cup nothing of this happened. Tourist were looked after and told where to go and be safe.
Not good news for SA that.
35@ Puma:
There’s the simple saying… “When in Rome, do as the Romans do…”
Same applies in this instance, just follow the local safer habits..
… but it is a universal principle… all over the world you do that.
In Europe you watch out in certain cities and places for pick-pocketers, in Honk Kong or wherever you listen to the local advice… in Brazil you don’t go to the seedy side… ect.
@ grootblousmile:36 – Gbs, Agree totally. Though it is not good news for our country.
I travel a lot and can tell you every country has a seedy spot and a no go area. Then always know about them. Tourists coming here know they coming to a high crime country and should take extra care where they go out here.. Get advice where to go and especially after dark.
@ grootblousmile:
A British woman and her husband on honeymoon in SA, went to Guglethu “to check out the night life” 2300hrs Saturday night….dof, but obviously they didnt know or didnt read their Embassys warnings.
38@ 4man:
Fark, how dumb can one get… surely they could have seen from the shanties around them that they had chosen gutter-area…
It’s a pity and a shame… and reflects badly on SA…. but damnit, it reflects badly on the intelligence of Poms too…..
@ grootblousmile:
They are both of Indian origin, she was from Swden, I dont know his background…they probably went there to buy some zol or something in my opinion.
@ grootblousmile:39 – gbs, Reading the papers they had both just been on a wine tour then went with a shuttle service decided to drive through Gugulethu. (VERY STUPID IDEA) Shuttle service should have adviced them not too. 11pm they were hijacked by two armed ment. They were sped off in the car. The husband was dropped off in a area called Harare just after midnight. He was left unhurt. They eventually found his bride in the abandoned car in Illitha Park, Khayelitsha.
Now why was the car left if they wanted it? Something don’t sound right.
Superrugby now on Kyknet channel 111
@ 4man:
4man reading in the papers. They were both from Bristol. Her husband had family though in King Williamstown.
” They were dof, stupid, uninformed “…whatever you want to call them…
Feit is, dit hoort glad nie so te wees nie en ons almal aanvaar te gelate die k@k wat in ons 3de wereld land aan die gang is…
Dit op sig self is pateties…
@ Blouste:44 – Blouste, My afrikaans is not that good but think I understand what you said there.
It should never have happened agree. We have far, far too much crime in this country and it just goes on and on, without anyone really doing something really to stop it. Totally not acceptable. Not sure when this terrible crime will ever get sorted out here.
@ Blouste:
hey kwaai seun , ken jy daai medisyne , help dit regtig n man beter speel?
@ Puma:
This is probably why they know who it is already, they just have to check who the shuttle service driver was!!
@ Puma:
Correct, they live in Bristol now, her family is in Sweden, so she is originally from there. tragic.
ok guys I’m out.
GBS….Ken Brewin died this morning in Bulawayo, ask your Uncle about him…WO1 No 4 divemaster and instructor. Was Command Master at ARms Naval Command East…Died in Bulawayo after having a pacemaker fitted in Capetown and on their way back to Binga where they have a houseboat on the Zambezi. My diving instructor and good friend.
Louis Heap will know him too.
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