How many rugby players use steroids? It’s more like how many don’t | Steve Howell

Whether it’s because players need to bulk up or want to look ripped, the sport needs to get its house in order before next summer’s Olympic Games in RioIn 1997 a man was jailed for six months for peddling steroids in south Wales. Hardly a headline grabber, you might think, but this was no backstreet drug pusher: the man was Michael Thear-Graham, a GP in Newport who was running an industrial-scale racket.At the time the media described him as supplying “bodybuilders”, but many of us in sport knew he also had a large and growing market in rugby, which had just turned professional. Related: Fears…