By Chris Foy for the Daily Mail
Published: 22:34 BST, 23 April 2019 | Updated: 22:34 BST, 23 April 2019
View
comments
The RFU has been forced to defend its anti-doping strategy after admitting it cannot guarantee that every Premiership player is drug-tested at least once a season.
The union also revealed four players in the elite league tested positive for cocaine during the 2017-18 campaign as it published its anti-doping and illicit drugs programme report on Tuesday.
There were 739 anti-doping tests on players in the top two divisions of the men’s game and the top division of the women’s game last season.
Ashley Johnson of Wasps was banned for six months for using a contaminated supplement
As with previous seasons, this means that every player in the Premiership may not have been tested at least once because there are nearly 500
