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Kyle Sinckler: Snus cost me England place
DIR By: Admin
Date: June 21, 2024, 7:31 am
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Prop, who will join Toulon next season, started taking ‘very
addictive’ smokeless tobacco product when he was a younger
player losing weight
HTML https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2024/06/21/kyle-sinckler-snus-harmed-performance-cost-england-place/
Kyle Sinckler believes that his use of snus affected his
performances for England and played a part in his eventual exit
from Steve Borthwick’s squad following the Rugby World Cup.
Sinckler, who will join Toulon in France next season, revealed
on The Good, The Bad & The Rugby that “there was loads of other
things that were happening behind the scenes, loads of habits
that I was doing that were not conducive to being a world-class
athlete, that kind of all came out after.”
Asked to elaborate, Sinckler said that he started taking snus as
a younger player when he was losing weight, and that the
smokeless tobacco product helped to suppress his appetite.
The British and Irish Lions prop added that snus was “very
addictive” and “not good for your performance”, before admitting
that it contradicted his work being a role model on social
media. Sinckler has previously worked with Saviour World, the
men’s mentoring organisation also used by Danny Cipriani and
James O’Connor.
“In terms of like where I want to be and the person, the man I
want to become, I can’t be saying one thing on the socials and
putting out a message like that. And then behind closed doors,
I’m acting like a victim, the world’s against me and I’m doing
snus,” Sinckler said. “The whole thing is just... it doesn’t
work like that, you know? So it’s like at the end of the day,
I’ve reaped what I sowed, you know?”
Jonny May, the former England wing speaking on the same podcast,
described Sinckler’s admission as “powerful... because a lot of
people in rugby are hooked on this stuff. I don’t know enough
about it, but it can’t be good for us”.
An exclusive interview with Sinckler by Telegraph Sport will be
published next week.
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Re: Kyle Sinckler: Snus cost me England place
DIR By: championes
Date: June 21, 2024, 12:15 pm
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Snus may well be the pro sport scandal that’s about to break.
Understand it’s massive in Prem football - with players even
cutting their skin below sock level and putting bags on it to
get into bloodstream. It’s apparently mainly used as a recovery
thing to calm down.
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Re: Kyle Sinckler: Snus cost me England place
DIR By: Quinky
Date: June 21, 2024, 12:39 pm
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Is it illegal?
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Re: Kyle Sinckler: Snus cost me England place
DIR By: RodneyRegis
Date: June 21, 2024, 5:29 pm
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Tobacco? Yes of course...
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Re: Kyle Sinckler: Snus cost me England place
DIR By: Quinky
Date: June 22, 2024, 2:30 am
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> Tobacco? Yes of course...
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Exactly my point.
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Re: Kyle Sinckler: Snus cost me England place
DIR By: Yareet
Date: June 22, 2024, 3:04 am
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--- Quote from: Quinky link ---
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> Is it illegal?
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Not sure if your point, Quinks, but lots of things that are
legal are also far from conducive to a pro rugby career.
Booze for example. Or Big Macs.
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Re: Kyle Sinckler: Snus cost me England place
DIR By: RodneyRegis
Date: June 22, 2024, 3:16 am
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Not sure how snus would harm sporting performance at all. Sounds
like nonsense to me.
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Re: Kyle Sinckler: Snus cost me England place
DIR By: Quinky
Date: June 22, 2024, 4:29 am
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--- Quote from: Yareet link ---
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> Not sure if your point, Quinks, but lots of things that are
legal are also far from conducive to a pro rugby career.
>
> Booze for example. Or Big Macs.
>
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Booze and food are managed by the nutrition and S&C teams. I'm
not sure that things such as chewing tobacco would be.
Some would also say that excessive screen time and/or computer
gaming can affect a person massively. I've never seen that
mentioned in a negative light though.
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Re: Kyle Sinckler: Snus cost me England place
DIR By: T-Bone
Date: June 22, 2024, 4:42 am
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Hardly a scandal
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Re: Kyle Sinckler: Snus cost me England place
DIR By: Carbonm
Date: June 22, 2024, 7:02 am
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Apparently it affects the cardiovascular system, doesn't sound
like it's going to help, really surprised he didn't get support
to try and kick it
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