World Rugby to distribute $2.5m for Olympic funding
Organisers hope to kick off the HSBC World Sevens Series in Hong Kong and Singapore in April
01 September 2020 - 17:31
Melbourne — World Rugby said on Tuesday that it would allocate $2.5m among rugby sevens nations that have qualified for the Tokyo Olympics to cope with further disruptions to the global sevens calendar due to the coronavirus.
The governing body said it had called off the Sydney and Hamilton rounds of the HSBC World Sevens Series scheduled for January due to the dynamic global nature of the Covid-19 pandemic...
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