{"id":6251,"date":"2024-10-31T01:16:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T01:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/france-rugby-chiefs-ban-alcohol-at-team-gatherings\/"},"modified":"2024-10-31T01:16:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T01:16:28","slug":"france-rugby-chiefs-ban-alcohol-at-team-gatherings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/france-rugby-chiefs-ban-alcohol-at-team-gatherings\/","title":{"rendered":"France rugby chiefs ban alcohol at team gatherings"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The French Rugby Federation (FFR) has banned players from drinking alcohol during national team gatherings to help improve off-field discipline.<\/b><\/p>\n

In July, France full-back Melvyn Jaminet was suspended<\/a> for 34 weeks and fined 30,000 euros (\u00a325,335) by the FFR after he posted a racist video on social media during the summer tour of Argentina.<\/p>\n

His team-mates Hugo Auradou, and Oscar Jegou<\/a>, both 21, were also charged with the aggravated rape of a 39-year-old woman during the same tour, which both deny.<\/p>\n

“These are places where the players are there to try and develop their physical and tactical abilities to the best of their ability,” FFR vice president Jean-Marc Lhermet told reporters.<\/p>\n

“The consumption of alcohol is not authorised in these places.”<\/p>\n

One of the other 20 steps announced by the FFR is a proposal to introduce drug and alcohol testing, with no overnight visitors allowed in players’ rooms.<\/p>\n

France head coach Fabien Galthie said the players backed the new measures.<\/p>\n

“We did a questionnaire and all the players said yes,” he added. “It was a logical and coherent development in relation to what had happened.”<\/p>\n

France play Japan, New Zealand and Argentina in their autumn internationals next month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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