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World Rugby has reaffirmed its commitment to delivering a spectacular Rugby World Cup tournament in New Zealand in 2022 after its Executive Committee formally ratified the recommendation to postpone Rugby World Cup 2021.
Congratulations to the two Canada-based recipients of the World Rugby Womens Executive Leadership Scholarship.
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World Rugby has made the difficult decision to recommend the postponement of Rugby World Cup 2021, scheduled to be hosted in New Zealand between 18 September-16 October, until next year. The recommendation will be considered by the Rugby World Cup Board and World Rugby Executive Committee on 8 and 9 March respectively.
World Rugby came out with a bold statement in support of the RWC 2021 in New Zealand, vowing to set new match attendance records. This against a backdrop of COVID worries around the world and the NZ Prime Minister stating the “New Zealand’s borders are likely to remain closed for much of the year as health officials assess global vaccine roll-outs”.
Canada has never missed qualifying for a Rugby World Cup, they just squeezed into the last one in Japan when they went to the repechage and found two top European sides had been disqualified due to player ineligibility. Germany had suddenly found themselves the top European side (Europe 3) in the repechage so Canada just had to dispatch Germany, Kenya and Hong Kong to make the World Cup. They were fortunate, that was Plan C. Canada has always gone Plan A before that.
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SCOTLAND v GEORGIA MURRAYFIELD KO 19:30 FRIDAY
Head to head:
Played 4 Scotland leads 4-0
Points for: Scotland 138 / Georgia 41
Average score: Scotland 34-10 Georgia
First met: 14 September, 2011 RWC 2011 Scotland 15-6 Georgia Invercargill, New Zealand
Last met: 6 September, 2019 Scotland 36-9 Georgia Murrayfield, Edinburgh
World Rugby announced 12 interim committees. They will initially serve for one year pending the completion of an independent governance review.
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World Rugby has announced the appointment of Joe Schmidt as the organisations Director of Rugby and High Performance.
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– World Rugby rankings as of 1 January 2020 to be used to determine seedings
– Players, coaches and fans to follow RWC 2023 Draw live on World Rugby platforms
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– World Rugby Awards to take place in an innovate virtual format on Monday, 7 December, 2020
– Special edition will recognise rugbys front liners who showed great solidarity during the pandemic and honour the best from the last decade of rugby (2010-19)