“That’s a challenge we’ll definitely accept, face-on.” For Pieter-Steph du Toit, most of 2020 was spent rehabbing and focusing on one light at the end of what seemed, at times, like a pitch-black tunnel – the Lions Tour to South Africa. The Stormers forward, who won the World Cup with his country in 2019 and […]

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“And that’s why when people tell me, ‘Oh, you can’t be yourself in rugby’, I say, ‘Well yes you can’.” Back in 1997, Nigel Owens was struggling to come to terms with his sexuality and attempted suicide by filling up on whiskey and over-dosing on paracetamol. He was discovered on a mountainside, brought by helicopter […]

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