Rugby World Cup 2021 celebrates One Year To Go milestone Eden Park and Northland Events Centre confirmed as opening day venues Rugby World Cup 2021 volunteer programme opens World Rugby and hosts New Zealand Rugby (NZR) have today confirmed the Black Ferns will play their opening match of Rugby World Cup 2021 at Auckland’s Eden
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Las Leonas face big challenges
Spain begins preparations for the World Cup José Antonio Barrio, Spain’s Head Coach, has announced an extended squad of 40 players from whom he will select a team to compete in the qualifying matches for the World Cup. For Las Leonas it is a formidable undertaking. They must first make sure of winning the European
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World Rugby announces joint World Cup host selection process
For the first time two men’s and women’s RWCs will be awarded at the same time Integrated process enables a strategic roadmap for hosting of showcase 15s events Collaborative process aims to identify and develop partnerships that will optimise host nation and World Rugby delivery, financial and legacy objectives Approach supports key objectives of World
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Beyond the Boundary documentary released on Netflix
The retrospective documentary of the event, will be available on Netflix from Friday, August 14th The documentary charts the journey of the world’s top players at the biggest women’s cricket event ever Cricket fans get a chance to relive all the action, excitement, and emotion from the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020 as Beyond
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Rugby – New Dates announced as Doyle steps down
Philip ‘Goose’ Doyle, Scotland’s head coach, has had to step down. As he is sheltering, he cannot make regular trips across the Irish Sea to meet up with his players. His place is taken on an interim basis by Bryan Easson, his deputy. This is thoroughly bad news for Scotland’s women, as Doyle was the
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One year on: England Netball reflects on impact of World Cup
• The tournament has the best known Net Promoter Score recorded for any major sporting event in the UK • 6.07 million attended, watched and/ or followed the Vitality Netball World Cup 2019 • Over £8m economic impact • 44,000 visitors to the fan park in Liverpool • 4.82 million agreed that the Vitality Netball
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The 2021 World Cup looks to be in grave Danger
On 2 June Africa Rugby cancelled all its competitions. It hoped to be able to resume in the last quarter of the year but outlined all the obstacles that make it less than likely – not only the health risks, but the cost of travel and quarantine limitations. The next day Asia Rugby made a
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How does next year’s World Cup look from this distance?
Now rugby has come to a complete halt, we have the chance to look forward – with guarded optimism. The great unknown is of course the progress of coronavirus. How soon will it leave us? Will it disappear at roughly the same time right across the world? Every prospective test player has had her eye
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What lies ahead for rugby? – Olympics and the Rugby World Cup
The Tokyo Olympics have at last been postponed. It took a while for the IOC and the Japanese Olympic Committee to decide which of them would make the call, but now we know. What we don’t know is precisely when they will be staged in 2021. The most likely call will be exactly twelve months
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Record-Breaking Knight Enjoys Landmark Day For England
Captain Heather Knight scored an unbeaten hundred as England Women beat Thailand to return to winning ways in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup. Knight’s 108 saw her become the first English cricketer – male or female – to score hundreds in Test, ODI and IT20 cricket. The 169 she put on with Nat Sciver
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