Former Georgia rugby captain Sharikadze banned over urine-swap scheme

It was also announced Tuesday that another five players and a member of the support staff had been sanctioned by World Rugby, with bans issued of up to nine years. A parallel investigation between World Rugby and the World Anti-Doping Agency was triggered when irregularities in urine samples were identified by the governing body's athlete passport management programme. Sharikadze, 32, who made more than 100 appearances for Georgia, is the most heavily sanctioned for tampering with urine samples...