Second doping offence for Wales rugby player

A 21 year-old Welsh rugby league player, Rhys Pugsley, has been suspended from all sport for eight years after committing a second Anti-Doping Rule Violation.

Pugsley, from Newport in Wales, tested positive for the presence of the anabolic steroid nandrolone following an out-of-competition test on 8 February 2016.

At the time of the test, the former Wiggan Warriors Academy and Welsh international was already serving a two-year ban for steroid use.

Pugsley is banned from all sport from 3 March 2016 until midnight on 2 March 2024.