Rugby star, 31, found dead in shower at team hotel

Hyron Andrews died suddenly at his team’s hotel on Friday (NurPhoto via Getty)

Former Sale Sharks lock Hyron Andrews has died following a fall at the Johannesburg Lions’ team hotel in France.

The 31-year-old could not be revived by emergency services after the alarm was raised at the Atalante-Relais Thalasso hotel on the Ile de Re, an island off the Atlantic coast of France near La Rochelle.

A source close to the investigation said that the emergency services arrived at the hotel in Sainte-Marie-de-Re around 10:15am on Friday, where they found Andrews unresponsive and in cardiac arre...