Valerii Popov has named the 12-woman squad for Kazakhstan ahead of this weekend's Olympic Games qualifier in China. Kazakhstan will be one of the favorites this weekend after a strong performance in the Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Series where they finished third behind the already qualified Japan ...
Top Asian women’s teams set for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games qualifier in China
China will host the Asia Rugby women's sevens qualification tournament for The Games Of The XXXII Olympiad this weekend. With eight of the top Asian teams competing for a spot alongside Japan as Asia's representatives, the competition on 9-10 November at the Guangzhou University Town Sports ...
HKRU names 14-strong Women’s Sevens travel squad for Olympic Qualifiers
HKRU Women’s Sevens Squad has been named for this weekend’s Olympic qualifier for the 2020 Tokyo Games. Hong Kong are second seeds in Pool A in the Qualifier on 9-10 November 2019 at the Guangzhou University Town Sports Centre Stadium, with the winner earning automatic entry to next summer’s ...
Strategies for game growth headline 14th world rugby general assembly
World Rugby Chairman Sir Bill Beaumont has opened the 14th World Rugby General Assembly in Tokyo, praising the Japanese for hosting one of the great Rugby World Cups, thanking the membership for global participation growth and calling on the game to work together to continue to evolve and attract a ...
South Africa to host Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022
South Africa will host Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022 after the World Rugby Council awarded the hosting rights for the premier tournament to South Africa at its Interim Meeting in Tokyo today. In September 2022 the eighth edition of the showcase event will take place in Cape Town in what will be the ...
Rugby World Cup 2019 finals medals capture the spirit of Japan
Rugby World Cup 2019 finals medals capture the spirit of Japan, following an incredible five weeks of Rugby World Cup action, and with the rugby world counting down to the final weekend of Rugby World Cup 2019, World Rugby and the Japan 2019 Organising Committee have revealed the designs for the ...
Arigato Japan – you have made the World Cup special ありがとうございました
Week by glorious week, Japan's players set new benchmarks for their country and their continent as they qualified from the pool phase as winners, moved into the top eight of the world rankings and competed in their first Rugby World Cup quarter-final. These goals were recited almost like a magic ...
Springboks ‘push the right buttons’ to end Brave Blossoms great journey
Japan huffed and puffed, but were unable to blow the Springbok house down as South Africa ground their way into the semi-finals with a convincing victory at Tokyo Stadium on Sunday. The Boks withstood the sustained pressure exerted by the Brave Blossoms, who were roared on by chants of “Nippon! ...
Japan shooting for Brighton Miracle sequel to outshine original
In the movie business, it is so often the case that the sequel is not a patch on the original. Yet as the sense of anticipation grows around Japan's World Cup rematch with South Africa on Sunday, it is a tantalizing prospect that the follow-up to the Brighton Miracle could be even more ...
Will the party continue? What japan must do to make the knockouts
The weather is wreaking havoc with the final weekend of pool games at Rugby World Cup 2019, but one big question remains on the minds of the host nation's fans: what do the Brave Blossoms have to do to qualify for the quarter-finals for the first time? As the pool tables show, their fate is in ...