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Botswana records another doping case

Presumptive drug test. PIC: SPORTSINTEGRITYINITIATIVE
Presumptive drug test. PIC: SPORTSINTEGRITYINITIATIVE

Doping cases continue to dog Botswana after a rugby player tested positive for a banned substance.

According to information reaching MmegiSport, the test was collected during a competition in August and it returned an adverse analytical finding for a prohibited substance. It is not the first time that rugby has registered a positive test. The recent case follows hard on the heels of similar incidents involving Lydia Jele, Ditiro Nzamani, and Pertunia Gaegopolwe.
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