France 'loaded' with amphetamines in famous All Blacks win

France's national rugby union team was a vast consumer of amphetamines in the 1980s including in a famous win over the All Blacks, according to a new book.

"They each had their little pill in front of their plates for the meal before the match," the French team doctor of the time, Jacques Mombet, is quoted as saying.

Mombet said the drug-taking was most obvious when France played New Zealand at Nantes in 1986, in a match called 'the battle of Nantes' for its ferocity which resulted in All Black legend Wayne Shelford being knocked out and losing several teeth in the process, and beat the…