Celebrations are taking place across Japan to mark the one-year milestone to their hosting of the 2019 Rugby World Cup, and Bill Beaumont, World Rugby’s chairman, predicted at a special ceremony in Tokyo that the event would be "the most impactful ever".
World Rugby and the International Olympic Committee have confirmed the qualification process for the men's and women's rugby sevens tournaments at Tokyo 2020.
A British tourist has been found not guilty of assaulting Australia's James Stannard in an incident which saw the former rugby sevens captain ruled out of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.
The Rugby World Cup 2019 Organising Committee has announced that His Imperial Highness Prince Akishino will assume the role of honorary patron of the tournament in Japan.
The rugby sevens teams have been confirmed for the Buenos Aires 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games.
The Under-20 World Rugby Trophy begins in Romania today and will trial a new adjustment for the legal height of a tackle.
Mobile telecommunications giant NTT DOCOMO has been appointed as a tournament supplier for next year's Rugby World Cup in Japan.
The Kamaishi Recovery Memorial Stadium, the only newly-built of the 12 venues that will host the Rugby World Cup in Japan next year, officially opened with its first match yesterday.
Rugby union player Dean Ashfield has been handed a four-year doping by UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) with over half of the organisation’s current sanctions now associated with rugby.
Namibia booked their place at the Japan 2019 Rugby World Cup by beating Kenya to win the Rugby Africa Gold Cup.
Australia and New Zealand have each been shortlisted as potential hosts of the 2021 Women's Rugby World Cup.
Former Argentina head coach Daniel Hourcade has been appointed to a high performance role at regional governing body Sudamérica Rugby.
Samoa's Gordon Langkilde has been charged with assaulting two Welsh players after an incident in the tunnel at the Rugby World Cup Sevens in San Francisco.
Japan 2019 have announced 38,000 applications have been made for the 10,000 volunteer positions for the Rugby World Cup.
New Zealand became the first nation to win back-to-back Rugby World Cup Sevens titles and also the first to lift the Melrose Cup on three occasions after claiming the men's crown with a 33-12 victory over England at AT&T Park in San Francisco today.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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