A South African rugby player has been forced to apologise to a Sydney high school after urinating during a training session on school grounds.
The Springboks are training at Randwick Boys’ High School in Sydney’s east ahead of their clash with the Wallabies on Saturday.
According to The Sydney Morning Herald, an unidentified player walked away during a training session on Monday to an “isolated location near trees”, before apologising to the school headmaster.
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The incident is understood to have occurred without any of the school’s students witnessing it.
Despite the controversy, the reigning world champions were allowed to continue training at the school facility, which they did on both Tuesday and Wednesday.
South Africa is far from the only rugby team to have used the Randwick Boys’ High School facilities, with the Wallabies also having trained on the school grounds.
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The Springboks are under pressure ahead of Saturday’s clash at Allianz Stadium after going down 25-17 to the Wallabies in Adelaide last weekend.
South Africa has not beaten Australia in a Test in Australia since 2013. The Test will be the first played at the revamped stadium since it re-opened in August.
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