Official Tony Gigot

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How was he ****ed over mate? Serious question, don't know anything about it.

I've had to use a lot of google translator to find out, but to my understanding this is along the lines of what happened.

It was rumoured that the Anti-Doping Authority got a tip off that Gigot was doping (although the tipoff is just a rumour) so they started to randomly drug tested Gigot a ridiculous amount of times (something like 5 times in just over a month) and on the fifth time Gigot went off at the drug testers (note, he still complied with giving the sample) and said something along the lines of "When this one comes back clean like all the others can you dick-heads **** off and leave me along?" (Don't know what he actually said, tried several quotes from articals and google traslate kept giving me different results so I just wrote the Aussie equivalent)

Once again the drug test came back clean but the Anti-Doping Authority said he acted unprofessional during the process so they slapped him with the same ban they give players that do test positive. Then to top it off it looked like they were going to downgrade the punishment after Gigot plead his case and from public backlash, but on the day Gigot and the Catalan officials had their meeting with the ADA, the ADA just turned around and said "nope, we're gonna stick with the 2 year ban"
 

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Gigot just made history becoming the first French player to ever win the man of the match award in the Challenge Cup final (also lead Catalans to their first piece of silverware ever)

Best fullback in the Super League.
 

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Gigot just made history becoming the first French player to ever win the man of the match award in the Challenge Cup final (also lead Catalans to their first piece of silverware ever)

Best fullback in the Super League.

I watched that game - I was thinking at the end that there was definitely going to be some Gigot love on here.

Awful game of Rugby League though... very sloppy.
 
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