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IRB Welcomes IOC Recommendation (Article Taken From USARUGBY.ORG)
The International Rugby Board (IRB) is delighted that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board has recommended Rugby Sevens as one of two sports for inclusion in the Olympic Games.
Bernard Lapasset, President of the IRB, said: “We would like to thank the IOC Executive Board for selecting Rugby Sevens from what are seven strong and diverse sports. We recognize the significance of this milestone in our campaign but are also mindful that the ultimate decision rests with the IOC members when they meet in Copenhagen on October 9 2009.”
Following a vote by the 15-member I.O.C. executive board, which met Thursday afternoon in Berlin, Rugby Sevens and golf were named as the two sports still under consideration for the 2016 Summer Games. Five other sports – baseball, softball, roller sports, squash and karate were rejected.
Stephanie Streeter, Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. Olympic Committee stated: “The U.S. Olympic Committee would like to offer its congratulations to the sports of Golf and Rugby which were recommended by the IOC’s Executive Board to go before the IOC’s full membership vote in October for inclusion into the 2016 Olympic Games. We also would like to reach out to our Olympic Family sports of Baseball, Softball, Karate, Roller Sports and Squash to praise the quality efforts each put forth in this process. They are great sports and I would hope each one of them would keep up their efforts to gain status as an Olympic sport."
The host city for the 2016 Games will be selected when the full 106-member Olympic Committee convenes in Copenhagen on Oct. 2 and the ultimate decision regarding the addition of new sports will be made on Oct. 9. It has not been decided whether the two proposed sports will be accepted or rejected individually or as a pair.
“The Olympic Games would be the pinnacle of the sport for all our athletes and the Rugby Family, providing the opportunity for the best men’s and women’s players in the world to showcase their talent on the world’s greatest sporting stage. The international Rugby community is united behind Rugby Sevens’ campaign and we now look ahead to October,” Lapasset added.
Rugby sevens is the mini-version of the 15-man sport in which teams are made up of seven players, with matches consisting of seven minute halves and played on a standard-sized field. The game is popular at all levels, with amateur and club tournaments generally held in the summer months. Notable international competitions include the IRB Sevens World Series and the Rugby World Cup Sevens. Rugby sevens is also played at some multi-sport events such as the Commonwealth Games, the World Games and was recently adopted into the Pan American Games.
The sport of rugby was included in four previous Olympic Games in 1900, 1908, 1920 and 1924. The Americans are technically the two-time defending Olympic gold medal champions, following wins against France in both 1920 and 1924. The last Olympic rugby match was played at Colombes stadium in Paris and the USA took the gold with a 17-3 victory before 30,000 fans.
“The global game of rugby sevens is a fast and furious contact sport, played by great athletes and followed by millions across the globe,” USA Rugby CEO and President of Rugby Operations Nigel Melville said.
“In the USA, rugby is growing by the day,” Melville added. “We have thousands of young players now picking up a rugby ball for the first time. If Rugby Sevens were to be included in the Olympic Games, the sport would have an even greater appeal to an even wider audience as there is no better global sporting stage than the Olympic Games.
“It would enable rugby and its leading principles of teamwork, camaraderie and fair play to inspire people not only around this nation, but around the world.”
Currently, the U.S. Men’s Sevens Team is ranked 11th in the world, while the U.S. Men’s 15s side is 18th. America is featured as one of the eight IRB Sevens World Series stops and is the largest international rugby event held in the U.S., bringing in a crowd of nearly 35,000 during the two days of men’s and women’s sevens competition in 2009.
The women’s Rugby Sevens game is becoming increasingly popular in the U.S. and beyond, with the historic addition of the women’s competition to the Rugby World Cup Sevens lineup in 2009. More than 83 nations competed for the 16 qualification spots to the Women’s Rugby World Cup and the inaugural women’s tournament asserted the U.S. as one of the top Women’s Sevens Teams in the world, advancing to the semifinals where they fell to a topflight New Zealand team.
Check out Rugby Sevens new ‘Reaching Out’ video here: http://www.irb.com/mm/Video/Home/…0kbits_8444.wmv. For more information on the push for Rugby Sevens’ inclusion in the Olympic Games, please visit http://www.irb.com or contact Dominic Rumbles at [email protected].
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This Picture is of the Rugby Positions as I'm sure many of you do not know them....
(Taken From Wikipedia)
Useful Links:
http://www.planetrugby.com/0,,,00+en-USS_01DBC.html
http://usarugby.org/
http://www.youtube.com/user/fraserdldavidson (for all ARC video's)
http://www.rugbyworldcup.com
http://www.irbsevens.com
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