Any suspicions that England may suffer a World Cup hangover bore some pretty ripe fruit in Paris at the weekend, with a rejuvenated and youthful French side downing the tournament runners-up 24-17 as the 2020 Six Nations kicked-off – having led 17-0 at the break.
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Almost a hundred professional wheelchair athletes will compete at the 2019 GIO Wheelchair Rugby National Championship next week, which takes place at Sydney Olympic Park from Friday June 28th-Sunday 30th.
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The announcement this week of World Rugby’s plans to unify the international game under one umbrella by 2022, has met with differing responses.
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After his impressive debut season for the Waratahs in 2008, Horne got further recognition at national level through a stint with the Aussie Sevens, and then the Australia U20’s team, and returned to cement a starting role with the Tahs the following year. The only thing that prevented him from going on to become a genuine superstar was his body.
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There are certain moments in a life of watching live sport that just stick with you. In terms of rugby, the more obvious ones are usually an exhilarating try, a derby win, a memorable grand final performance and the trophy celebrations that follow, or a prop going 50 and diving home to the shock of everyone including his or her self. But in such a collision sport, the truth is that nothing quite gets the heart racing, or the crowd squealing with delight, like a brutally beautiful bell-ringing tackle.
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Saturday night’s World Series match between the Western Force and Melbourne Rebels is shaping up as one big reunion, with several ex-Force players in line to turn out against their former team mates in the third instalment of Twiggy Forrest’s new venture.
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There’s been a bitter twist in the tail to the story of Spain’s controversial clash with Belgium in the 2019 Rugby World Cup qualifiers that Behind the Ruck covered a few weeks ago – see here That match had ended in an 18-10 victory for hosts Belgium, a result that sent Romania to the World Cup, and forced Spain through
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