Rugby club sack Olympic champion for biting teammate during boozy night out

Olympic rugby champion Masivesi Dakuwaqa has been sacked by French nine Biarritz for biting a teammate during an alcohol-fuelled nighttime out.

Dakuwaqa, who helped Fiji clinch a golden medal with triumph implicit Great Britain astatine the Rio Games successful 2016, admits helium ‘drank excessively galore beers’ and has offered his afloat apology to Pierre Pages aft viciously biting his cheek.

The incidental occurred astatine a squad enactment astatine a edifice successful confederate France past period and near Pages with a bloodied face, with the French rugby subordinate requiring 20 stitches, starring to a afloat probe by Biarritz.

Dakuwaqa was angered and became assertive astatine the enactment erstwhile helium was advised by respective of his teammates to not thrust home, with the Fijian golden medallist reportedly smashing a car model earlier his onslaught connected Pages.

French rugby broadside Biarritz confirmed they had terminated Dakuwaqa’s declaration successful a nationalist connection pursuing their probe, portion the nine person besides said they volition not beryllium making immoderate further comments.

‘Following the club’s interior investigation, the allegations made against Masivesi Dakuwaqa person made it intolerable for him to proceed his engagement with the club,’ Biarritz said.

Dakuwaqa, speaking to French outlet L’Equipe, said: ‘I’d truthful overmuch similar to apologise to Pierre. To apologise to him and his family.

‘If I hadn’t been drinking, I’d ne'er person done it. I drank excessively galore beers. I mislaid my way.

‘We’d organised this repast betwixt players to fortify our squad tone aft a bid of defeats.

‘Everything was going well. We were telling stories and having a laugh. Then I had a blackout.

‘I can’t retrieve what happened. I woke up successful a drunk tank, without my shirt, wondering what I was doing there.

‘I couldn´t retrieve a thing. I told myself I’d done thing wrong, but I didn’t cognize what.

‘When the constabulary questioned me, I asked them, ‘Why americium I here, what person I done? – they said, ‘You spot someone’ – I asked them, ‘Who did I bite?’ – past they showed maine a photograph of Pierre taken from Google.’

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