The Irish Sports Council say schools are \u2018a law unto themselves\u2019<\/p>\n
The general consensus in schools is \u2018no supplements allowed\u2019 but the temptation remains for those unlikely to experience this level of competition again. Photograph: Inpho\/Morgan Treacy > https:\/\/twitter.com\/Inphosports<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cEveryone has a personal gold medal. That might be just making the First XV of your high school rugby team. The Irish Sports Council say schools are \u2018a law unto themselves\u2019 The general consensus in schools is \u2018no supplements allowed\u2019 but the temptation remains for those unlikely to experience this level of competition again. Photograph: Inpho\/Morgan Treacy > https:\/\/twitter.com\/Inphosports \u201cEveryone has a personal gold medal. That might be just making the First XV of your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5871,5749,6044,15710,3959,17213,17473,9655,8900],"class_list":["post-78069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-in","tag-of","tag-on","tag-quiet","tag-rugby","tag-schools","tag-supplements","tag-underage","tag-use"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78070,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78069\/revisions\/78070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cThese drugs are rife \u2013 you can get them online, get them in any gym. It\u2019s a massive problem we have with school kids in Australia, being busted with steroids. They are trying to bulk up just to get into their schools team. The distribution of performance enhancing drugs is a multi-billion dollar industry.
\n\u201cThe further down in sport you go the bigger it is because you have equal incentive to use it, because it works, it is readily available and you got less chance of being caught.\u201d \u2013 Richard Ings \u2013 former head of Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (Asada)…………… http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/rugby\/schools-quiet-on-use-of-supplements-in-underage-rugby-1.2036062<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"