The New Zealand Rugby Union will set up a dedicated integrity unit to combat corruption and doping in the sport, a senior official said on Sunday.
Neil Sorenson, NZRU general manager of professional rugby, said the governing body aimed to have the unit set up in six months, New Zealand Newswire reported.
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“We’ve been thinking about integrity now for over a year,” he told the agency. “We need to be really alert and keep educating ourselves about this stuff.”
A New Zealand government report last November found there was little high-level corruption in sport in the country, but Lavinia Gould, a former member of the national women’s sevens squad, was suspended for two years last November after testing positive for a banned stimulant.
Gould was the first player contracted to the NZRU to receive a doping ban.
At the time the NZRU said more than 1700 tests had been conducted in the previous five years with just two ‘minor’ violations.
The NZRU unit is expected to devote 90 percent of its resources to education and 10 percent to auditing, the report said.
The NZRU decision follows on from a New Zealand government initiative to provide a more co-ordinated effort to combat doping and corruption in sport.
It said last year it would increase resources to allow government agencies, including Customs, the police,Serious Fraud Office and sporting organisations like Sports New Zealand (SNZ) and Drug Free Sport NZ (DFSNZ) to actively share information and meet twice a year to discuss any issues that arise.
Previously, law enforcement agencies, individual sports organisations and DFSNZ had taken responsibility for the implementation of anti-corruption and doping policy.
A national match-fixing policy would also be introduced this year and would include the sport sector and betting industry.
I wonder if I_Luv_u_Bakkies__Botha knows about this.
Well, firstly he would say that they need it, those stinking, cheating, conniving,thieving Kiwis who is too blame for all the wrongs in the world, not just the world of rugby.
Ha ha, those from Keo will know precisely what I’m talking about, and then , should one of the Kiwi bloggers like Pops have seen him write something, then it was chaos, resulting in mental breakdowns, Bakkies going on a walkabout to clear his head, Pops coming back under a new nic etc etc
Guess we will never see those days again
They’d be better off setting up and Alcoholics Anonymous if you ask me…
Some pretty illustrious names come to mind…..
@ Stormersboy:
An. Not and.
Eish
No comment
Bakkies won’t like this.
Bakkies would no doubt call for the “Integrity Unit” itself to be investigated because: “You cannot trust these low-life, cheating, stinking, scumbag Keewee miscreants of life to report any wrongdoing by their own kind, they would never do that and it sickens & disgusts me.
“I hate them, I honestly hate them.”
Brycie should head up this new unit.
@ NZINCHINA:
That would make Bakkies’ life complete!
@ Stormersboy:
Ha yes he’d be thrilled, I hope he comes out of the woodwork for the traditional KEO grudge match Blues V Bulls , good win for your boys on the weekend although I doubt either team will be there come finals time.
The things he used to come up with.
To me his all time best went something along the lines of: the shorter the distance between a man’s sideburns and the corner of his eye the more likely he was to be a cheater/conniver/unscrupulous/devious/dishonest/lying/untrustworthy etc specimen of humankind.
And no prizes for guessing which nation’s men best fitted that description according to the World of Bakkies.
Despite the obvious flaws in “I_Luv_u_Bakkies__Botha’s” personality……………..
He was,
deep down,
very deep down,
quite a humorous barstard.
Speaking of barstards……………………………………Hello gunther.
🙂
12 @ cane:Hullo mate, I saw by pure chance that I have 99 caps behind my Superbru name since making my debut in August last year and will be winning the ONE-HUNDREDTH one against your team on Friday…
I need to make this Big One count so will have to give it a lot of thought between now & Friday…
BB, Cane supports a team that can’t even beat the Stormers……..enough said
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