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England captain Marlie Packer was named World Rugby women's 15s Player of the Year, moments after they beat New Zealand in the final of the inaugural WXV 1 competition in Auckland on Saturday.
PARIS: It has been a long time coming, and it will be a long time until its benefits are felt, but rugby's administrators seem to have finally found a way to untie the Gordian Knot that has seen the game forever hopelessly biased towards its traditional powers.
PARIS: It has been a long time coming, and it will be a long time until its benefits are felt, but rugby's administrators seem to have finally found a way to untie the Gordian Knot that has seen the game forever hopelessly biased towards its traditional powers.
PARIS : Rugby hailed the expansion of the World Cup and the introduction of a Nations League competition as a new dawn for the sport as it sought to widen its international reach and increase revenue and opportunity.
It is a major reform of a sport that is struggling to provide meaningful opportunities to smaller unions, and comes at a time when the likes of Portugal and Fiji have shown the promise of Tier Two sides at the World Cup in France.
The World Rugby Council has approved a new aligned international calendar, expanded 24-team men's World Cup and a top division of 12 teams in a biennial Nations League concept from 2026 that will have promotion and relegation, but only from 2030.
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World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont has hailed the first month's World Cup action in France and promised the sport's lesser nations would get more chances "to be competitive on the world stage" amid widespread frustration from players and coaches. However, anyone expecting a levelling up to come to fruition in time for the next tournament in Australia in 2027 might be disappointed as Beaumont spoke of a "genuinely competitive World Cup" four years after that.