Rugby

2:47 PM BST Former France scrum half Fabien Galthie will replace Jacques Brunel as the country’s head coach after this year’s Rugby World Cup, French Rugby Federation chief Bernard Laporte has said. Galthie played 64 times for France, captaining the side to a Six Nations Grand Slam in 2002 and at the 2003 World Cup.
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10:28 AM BST Ireland international Bundee Aki has apologised for ‘liking’ a controversial social media post from Australian star Israel Folau. Folau, 30, declared on his Instagram account that “hell awaits” homosexuals, drunks, adulterers, liars, fornicators, thieves, atheists and idolaters. Aki liked the post at the time but he has now taken to Twitter to
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11:35 AM BST English Premiership side Sale Sharks have signed South Africa lock Lood de Jager on a three-year deal, the first of a number of Springbok players set to move to European clubs after the World Cup in Japan. De Jager, 26, will leave Pretoria-based Super Rugby side the Bulls either at the start
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10:07 AM BST The Rugby Football Union (RFU) confirmed five anti-doping violations within both the professional and community game were discovered out of more than 800 tests conducted across all levels of rugby in England in the 2017-18 season. The programme carried out 739 tests within the professional game while 99 tests were conducted at
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