Pape 10-week ban for kneeing Heaslip upheld

Pascal Pape’s RBS 6 Nations career has ended in acrimony after the France lock lost his appeal against a 10-week ban for kneeing Ireland’s Jamie Heaslip in the back.

Pape had claimed the 10-week sanction was “excessive and disproportionate”, but a Six Nations disciplinary committee threw out his case at a hearing in London.