Despite the ongoing restrictions of COVID-19, South Korea’s men's sevens team continue to surge forward in preparation for the 2021 Olympic Games. The team has been running a series of at-home training sessions to ensure all players remain mentally and physically fit during ...
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Asia Rugby Cancels Competitions Fixtures for the Third Quarter of 2020
Asia Rugby working with its Player Welfare and Medical Committee and relevant stakeholders and in line with the Return to Play guidelines provided by World Rugby has announced the prudent decision to Cancel all competitions scheduled from 1 July 2020 to 30 September 2020. Asia Rugby Calendar ...
Tackling inequality in sports: Syrian women In rugby by Sarah Abd Elbaki
Tackling inequality in sports:Syrian women In rugby has been submitted by Sarah Abd Elbaki who is a Mass Media and Communication graduate, Head of Women's Rugby Development in Syria, Assistant Coach for Syria National Men's team, First Arab Asian Woman Referee. Tackling inequality in sports: Syrian ...
Rugby India’s 2020 #TRYSeries Tournament has been a Virtual Success
While rugby has struggled to step on the field, the game’s governing body in India, Rugby India, launched the TRY Series virtual tournament. The TRY Series debuted on 10th May, featuring 32 teams from across the country. Rugby clubs are competing from across all five zones, representing 15 states ...
Jordan and Qatar become associate members of World Rugby
The Jordan Rugby Committee, Qatar Rugby Federation and Turkish Rugby Federation have been welcomed as World Rugby associate members, bringing the number of national unions in membership to 127. World Rugby’s supreme decision-making body approved the recommendation of the Executive and Regional ...
World Rugby announce Women’s Executive Leadership Scholarship recipients in Asia
Four candidates from Hong Kong, Laos, Sri Lanka and Indonesia have been awarded scholarships 37 Executive Leadership Scholarships have been awarded worldwide since 2018 World Rugby recently extended the programme after game-changing outcomes Scholarship programme is a key strand of the ...
World Rugby publishes COVID-19 return to rugby guidelines
World Rugby has published guidelines for the safe return to rugby activities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic via its player welfare website. Guidelines intended to assist unions and competitions in devising own framework that is compliant with respective national social-distancing and ...
Sir Bill Beaumont elected World Rugby Chairman for a second term
Sir Bill Beaumont elected World Rugby Chairman and has called on the game to unite and get working immediately to achieve sustainable growth in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic after being elected for a second term as World Rugby Chairman. · World Rugby Council elects Beaumont as ...
Asia Rugby Continues to Review Competitions Fixtures for the Second Half of 2020
Following Asia Rugby decision on the 6-Apr-2020 to keep monitoring the global health situation to reach a solid decision whether to retain or cancel all Asia Rugby competitions scheduled from 1-7-2020 to 31-12-2020 in response to global health situation caused by the COVID-19 ...
アジアラグビー 次期ワールドラグビー会長にアグスティン・ピチョット氏を支持
有権者28ヵ国の協会員によるワールドラグビー会長投票選挙に関して、ピチョット氏24票、ビューモント氏2票、そして2協会が棄権という内容にて投票を締め切ったことを2020年4月25日に発表しました。 アル・ダライ氏は、「他の地域のラグビー協会とは異なり、執行委員会により投票を行うことではなく、今回の会長選挙ではアジアラグビーは各国の協会に、選好な候補者に投票するための自主を与えました。それが自分の、平等、透明性、説明責任の指導原則を活かした判断でした。 English version ...