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Retour, révélations, complot : l'étrange message d'Elton Jantjies

Elton Jantjies a été suspendu pour usage de clenbutérol, un broncho-dilatateur (Photo by Mark Kolbe/Getty Images).

On reverra Elton Jantjies sur les terrains de rugby, il l’a promis. L’année dernière, le Springbok a été contrôlé positif au clenbutérol, une substance interdite. Des traces de ce produit substance ont été trouvées dans un échantillon prélevé sur le joueur le 20 juin, alors qu’il participait au camp d’entraînement des Boks.

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La présence de la substance interdite a conduit l’Institut sud-africain de lutte anti-dopage (SAIDS) à infliger une suspension de quatre ans au vainqueur de la Coupe du monde 2019, 46 capes avec l’équipe nationale.

La suspension a été confirmée par le SAIDS en janvier de cette année, Jantjies n’ayant pas exercé son droit d’être entendu par un panel d’audition antidopage indépendant.

Au cours du week-end, le joueur de 33 ans a publié une vidéo sur les médias sociaux dans laquelle il s’en prend à certaines « organisations » avant de révéler son objectif de revenir au jeu.

« Beaucoup de gens se posent des questions sur ma carrière, mais sachez que je serai de retour plus tôt que vous ne le pensez », a déclaré Jantjies.

« Les recherches, les faits et les preuves montrent que beaucoup d’organisations ont été impliquées dans cette affaire. J’ai été testé positif pour quelque chose que je n’ai jamais utilisé.

Boks drink from cup
Bongi Mbonambi and Elton Jantjies during the Springboks’ champions tour on Monday in Cape Town (Photo by Ashley Vlotman/Gallo Images/Getty Images)
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« J’en dirai plus sur le fait de manquer ma deuxième Coupe du monde, mais je n’en veux à personne parce que je me prépare à beaucoup plus, à quelque chose de beaucoup plus grand.

« Je me concentre sur le prochain cycle. J’ai quelques petites choses à régler, mais je suis très positif.

« Je crois vraiment que ces derniers mois sont un mal pour un bien. Oui, je veux jouer au rugby et je veux faire ce que j’aime, mais cette situation a amené d’autres opportunités pour moi.

« Cela m’a apporté beaucoup de réponses dans ma vie personnelle et dans ma carrière de rugbyman.

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« Il y a beaucoup de gens que j’admirais, mais qui m’ont beaucoup déçu. Des gens en qui je croyais.

« Quand je reviendrai sur le terrain de rugby, je serai une version différente d’Elton.

« Je tiens à remercier tous les membres de ma famille qui me soutiennent. Il y a beaucoup de fans qui me soutiennent et qui croient que je serai de retour sur le terrain plus tôt qu’on ne le pense.

« J’ai trouvé toutes les réponses, j’ai recueilli les faits et rassemblé les preuves à l’encontre de nombreuses organisations qui ne font pas les choses de la bonne manière. »

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Tom 6 hours ago
What is the future of rugby in 2025?

Briiiiiiiiiiiiiiiistol! Briiiiiiiiiiiiiiiistol! Briiiiiiiiiiiiiiiistol!


It's incredible to see the boys playing like this. Back to the form that saw them finish on top of the regular season and beat Toulon to win the challenge cup. Ibitoye and Ravouvou doing a cracking Piutau/Radradra impression.


It's abundantly clear that Borthwick and Wigglesworth need to transform the England attack and incorporate some of the Bears way. Unfortunately until the Bears are competing in Europe, the old criticisms will still be used.. we failed to fire any punches against La Rochelle and Leinster which goes to show there is still work to do but both those sides are packed full of elite players so it's not the fairest comparison to expect Bristol to compete with them. I feel Bristol are on the way up though and the best is yet to come. Tom Jordan next year is going to be obscene.


Test rugby is obviously a different beast and does Borthwick have enough time with the players to develop the level of skill the Bears plays have? Even if he wanted to? We should definitely be able to see some progress, Scotland have certainly managed it. England aren't going to start throwing the ball around like that but England's attack looks prehistoric by comparison, I hope they take some inspiration from the clarity and freedom of expression shown by the Bears (and Scotland - who keep beating us, by the way!). Bristol have the best attack in the premiership, it'd be mad for England to ignore it because it doesn't fit with the Borthwick and Wigglesworth idea of how test rugby should be played. You gotta use what is available to you. Sadly I think England will try reluctantly to incorporate some of these ideas and end up even more confused and lacking identity than ever. At the moment England have two teams, they have 14 players and Marcus Smith. Marcus sticks out as a sore thumb in a team coached to play in a manner ideologically opposed to the way he plays rugby, does the Bears factor confuse matters further? I just have no confidence in Borthers and Wiggles.


Crazy to see the Prem with more ball in play than SR!

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JW 10 hours ago
Does South Africa have a future in European competition?

In another recent article I tried to argue for a few key concept changes for EPCR which I think could light the game up in the North.


First, I can't remember who pointed out the obvious elephant in the room (a SA'n poster?), it's a terrible time to play rugby in the NH, and especially your pinnacle tournament. It's been terrible watching with seemingly all the games I wanted to watch being in the dark, hardly able to see what was going on. The Aviva was the only stadium I saw that had lights that could handle the miserable rain. If the global appeal is there, they could do a lot better having day games.


They other primary idea I thuoght would benefit EPCR most, was more content. The Prem could do with it and the Top14 could do with something more important than their own league, so they aren't under so much pressure to sell games. The quality over quantity approach.


Trim it down to two 16 team EPCR competitions, and introduce a third for playing amongst the T2 sides, or the bottom clubs in each league should simply be working on being better during the EPCR.


Champions Cup is made up of league best 15 teams, + 1, the Challenge Cup winner. Without a reason not to, I'd distribute it evenly based on each leauge, dividing into thirds and rounded up, 6 URC 5 Top14 4 English. Each winner (all four) is #1 rank and I'd have a seeding round or two for the other 12 to determine their own brackets for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. I'd then hold a 6 game pool, home and away, with consecutive of each for those games that involve SA'n teams. Preferrably I'd have a regional thing were all SA'n teams were in the same pool but that's a bit complex for this simple idea.


That pool round further finalises the seeding for knockout round of 16. So #1 pool has essentially duked it out for finals seeding already (better venue planning), and to see who they go up against 16, 15,etc etc. Actually I think I might prefer a single pool round for seeding, and introduce the home and away for Ro16, quarters, and semis (stuffs up venue hire). General idea to produce the most competitive matches possible until the random knockout phase, and fix the random lottery of which two teams get ranked higher after pool play, and also keep the system identical for the Challenge Cup so everthing is succinct. Top T2 side promoted from last year to make 16 in Challenge Cup

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