Rugby: O'Connell slapped with two-week ban2005-03-24 · Channel News Asia Thursday
O'Connell long expected to be named next month in Clive Woodward's squad for the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand was cited by French commissioner Paul Mauriac for punching Wales second row Robert Sidoli during the game which Wales won 32-20 to clinch the Grand Slam. "I am both relieved and happy that the process is now over and the hearing that I received was fair in its decisio…