After yesterday’s training suspension, the surprise anti-doping control at 6am and the controversial election of Jaco Peyper, the Foewards coach acknowledged that this should not affect them and he is not looking for excuses.
The Pumas prepare to face Welsh for the quarterfinals of Rugby World Cup next saturday, but the last few days have been revolutionary for the Argentine team. After the controversial appointment of the referee, they had to cancel a training session due to poor field conditions and World Rugby will conduct a surprise anti-doping test at 6am, Andrés Bordoyone of the members of the coaching staff, He was critical and said that they should not be brought into these situations.
In the middle of the usual press conference in the previous one, the forward coach, a position where Pablo Matera lost due to injury, He confirmed that they had to adapt the planning of yesterday’s exercises due to the terrible condition of the grass at the Co Berre XV club, and I add: “It doesn’t have to be a reason, like doping in the morning, It doesn’t have to be something that affects us.”. Although the Doge He recognized that they fit the game and we should not lose focusthe person in charge of preparing fixed formations said: “I would like to believe that other teams also had doping at the same time.”
About the choice of Jaco Peyper as the referee of the match against the Red Dragons for a place in the semifinals, after a picture emerged of the South African celebrating the Welsh victory with his fans, Bordoy He said the team is ready for any refereeand in addition: “Especially with our game and the support we have to give to not leave something at 50 and 50 or something that depends on the referee”. To close, the man from Rosario said: “If we really don’t have things for us, it depends on what we want to do, do things really well so that the referee doesn’t have to have a difficult decision or something that could hurt us, that it really depends on us“.
Shocking anti-doping control for Los Pumas at the World Cup in France
Five members of Los Pumas’ Argentine team, which is preparing to play next Saturday against Wales in the quarterfinals of the Rugby World Cup in France, was subjected to a surprise drug test. He himself is in charge of world rugby and it happened at 6:30 (French time) at the hotel where the Argentine national team is staying in the city of Marseille, before the first high-intensity training session of the day, and the athletes underwent blood and urine tests.
As it turned out, the rugby players who had to take the test, which is customary in these types of events, were Marcos Kremer, Thomas Gallo, Joaquín Oviedo, Martín Bogado and Santiago Carreras. At that time the players were still sleeping, because training was only scheduled for 10 at the CO Berre XV club, in the Provence region.
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