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2016: Rugby Is Back In The Olympics!
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<blockquote data-quote="Nickdnz" data-source="post: 282652"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Wally @ Oct 12 2009, 01:11 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=416159" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p>The chance to win an Olympic medal on a sporting stage so big it makes the Rugby World Cup look small, in a country many players would not have normally visited. I believe it will be taken very seriously.</p><p>[/b]</p></blockquote><p>I believe the 2007 Rugby world cup was the third largest sporting event in the world, both in financial gain, and auidence watching, behind the Olympics and then the Soccer World Cup...so no I don't think it is so big it will make the RWC look small...More people are still more likley to watch the Rugby World Cup, then one event in the Olympics. But it will certainly introduce the Olymics to a new market, particuly in Asia and the Americas.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Nickdnz, post: 282652"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Wally @ Oct 12 2009, 01:11 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=416159']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> The chance to win an Olympic medal on a sporting stage so big it makes the Rugby World Cup look small, in a country many players would not have normally visited. I believe it will be taken very seriously. [/b][/quote] I believe the 2007 Rugby world cup was the third largest sporting event in the world, both in financial gain, and auidence watching, behind the Olympics and then the Soccer World Cup...so no I don't think it is so big it will make the RWC look small...More people are still more likley to watch the Rugby World Cup, then one event in the Olympics. But it will certainly introduce the Olymics to a new market, particuly in Asia and the Americas. [/QUOTE]
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