Healy helps Windies to semi-finals

Bermuda's Tom Healy was included in the Rugby West Indies (RWI) team that went down 14-12 to a Canada Chairman's side in the semi-finals of the Abbotsford International Sevens tournament held in Vancouver this week.

RWI's loss was hugely controversial as a conversion that would have tied the game and sent it to overtime went through the uprights but was ruled wide by the referee.

Kenya later defeated Canada 19-17 to win the final.

In earlier pool matches, RWI defeated the Young Bucks 14-12, a sevens select side from Greater Vancouver, and defeated Burnaby Lighthouse 24-15 with Healey scoring a try and making two conversions.

After clinching a berth in the semi-final, RWI narrowly lost 17-19 to a well-organised Old Puget Sound squad.

Games athletes pass drugs test

No athletes from the 25 teams who attended the recent Island Games in Aland, including those from Bermuda, tested positive for drugs, according to the International Island Games Association (IIGA).

Drug testing took place for the first time since the Games began in 1985 with the IIGA pronouncing before the festival began that they "fully supported and adopted the principles of the World Anti-Doping Code" and subsequently produced IIGA Anti-Doping Rules and Regulations.

Tests were performed by officials from the WADA-approved Doping Control Laboratory from Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden.