Visagie gets two years
February 20, 2001

South African international prop Cobus Visagie has been suspended for two years for taking the banned substance nandrolone, the South African Rugby Union Federation (SARFU) said Tuesday.

Visagie has the right of appeal against the ban which is retroactive to October 2000, SARFU said.

The 27-year-old Visagie, capped 18 times for the Springboks, tested positive for nandrolone on October 27 before the Currie Cup final opposing South Africa's top provinces.

The result was confirmed in a second test in November.

Injuries kept Visagie out of the Springbok tour of Argentina and Europe late last year and then he appeared before SARFU's discilipnary committee headed by Judge Edwin King.

"The decision issued on behalf of the tribunal by chairperson Edwin King states that Mr Visagie is suspended for two years from all playing, training, refereeing, touch judging, coaching, selecting, organising, administering or promoting of Rugby Football," the SARFU statement said.

Visagie's lawyers maintained that he only took products that were supplied to him by SARFU or by Cape Town's Western province team for whom he played.

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