Chalmers Argues There Is 'No Need' for Irb to Scrap World Cup Event
The Scotsman › October 13, 2009
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CRAIG Chalmers has urged the International Rugby Board not to dispense with the Rugby World Cup Sevens after the IOC agreed to welcome rugby back into the Olympic Games after a near-century's absence.
The IOC's decision has given a massive boost to the IRB's push to turn rugby into a truly global sport with governments in the major powers of Russia, the USA and China set to inject multi-million pound funding into developing the sport on a much wider scale in their countries. Their funding of sport, generally, follows those aligned with the Olympics and Steve Diamond, the former England A coach and now director of rugby in Russia told The Scotsman this summer that he expected GBP 50 million to be ploughed into the sport in Russia if it was welcomed into the Olympics.See the full content of this document
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Chalmers Argues There Is 'No Need' for Irb to Scrap World Cup Event
The SRU welcomed the news from Copenhagen as a terrific acknowledgement of the abbreviated form of rugby t...
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