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<blockquote data-quote="Canadian_Rugger" data-source="post: 505144" data-attributes="member: 12699"><p>This was just posted on the Rugby Canada website</p><p></p><p></p><p>[TABLE="width: 100%, align: left"]</p><p><tbody>[TR]</p><p>[TD="bgcolor: black"]<span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>REAFFIRMING COMMITMENT TO RUGBY'S DEVELOPMENT</strong></span></span></p><p><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&username=rsminc" target="_blank"><img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>[/TD]</p><p>[/TR]</p><p>[TR]</p><p>[TD="bgcolor: #DDDDDD"][TABLE]</p><p><tbody>[TR]</p><p>[TD]<span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 9px"><em>Thursday, May 24, 2012 - Submitted by RC Communications</em></span></span>[/TD]</p><p>[/TR]</p><p></tbody>[/TABLE]</p><p>[/TD]</p><p>[/TR]</p><p>[TR]</p><p>[TD]<span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Rugby Canada going from strength to strength</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Participation on the rise</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Road to Rio 2016 underway</span></li> </ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Canada is perfectly positioned to reap the benefits of rugby 7s inclusion in the 2016 Olympic Games thanks to the strong partnership between the Canadian Olympic Committee, Sport Canada, Own the Podium and Rugby Canada.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">With a little over four years to go until the finest men's and women's rugby 7s athletes compete on the world's greatest sporting stage, the</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">foundations are firmly in place to deliver competitive teams for the qualification process and ensure that rugby continues its strong growth across Canada.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Rugby is booming in Canada. There are now in excess of 80,000 athletes, spanning from youth to adult, playing the sport across the country and with Olympic inclusion inspiring a new generation of athletes, Canada's men's and women's 7s and 15s programs continue to impress on the world stage.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The Canadian Men's 15s team enjoyed a solid Rugby World Cup 2011 campaign, defeating Tonga and pushing France close. The Men's 7s team now has coveted core status on the prestigious HSBC Sevens World Series, while the Women's 7s team is ranked amongst the best in the world, winning the inaugural IRB Women's Challenge Cup event in Dubai last November.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">"We are delighted with and committed to our partnership with Rugby Canada. Rugby is a dynamic and inclusive team sport that embodies the Olympic values of respect, team work and fair play," said CEO of Own the Podium Anne Merklinger, speaking at a special Canadian Olympic Committee event at Sport Accord in Quebec. "We are working in collaboration with all stakeholders to jointly foster the game and ensure that our teams are in the best-possible position to qualify for and be highly-competitive on the world's greatest sporting stage."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">"These are exciting times for rugby in Canada. We have more than 80,000 men, women and children actively participating in the game and interest and profile is certainly on a high," said Pat Aldous, Chairman of the Board of Directors for Rugby Canada. "Olympic inclusion has boosted interest, profile and participation in both 7s and 15s. Our men's and women's teams continue to do Canada proud on the world stage and we are very excited about rugby 7s Olympic Games debut in 2016."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">IRB Chairman Bernard Lapasset said that Olympic inclusion is benefitting national federations around the world.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">"We are already seeing the enormous benefit of Olympic Games inclusion for our national federations and I am delighted that there is such a strong bond between Rugby Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee to foster the game in Canada and deliver strong national teams in 7s and 15s."</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span><a href="http://www.rugbycanada.ca/leagues/newsletter.cfm?clientID=3817&leagueID=0&page=61683" target="_blank">http://www.rugbycanada.ca/leagues/newsletter.cfm?clientID=3817&leagueID=0&page=61683</a></p><p></p><p>I can say compared to where rugby was 10 years ago in this country it is now on the up and gaining more and more of a profile. We had a little over 40,000 rugby players registered over 5 to 6 years ago and that number has nearly doubled in that time span making rugby one of the fastest growing sports in this country, Ontario alone now has over 25,000 boys in secondary school playing rugby. There is talk again about creating a national university championship for the men again and I believe with the olympics now including rugby this is far more likely to occur. Likewise the inclusion of "Own the Podium" money for rugby is going to pay huge dividends for our athletes. Canadians like Americans love the Olympics and as a result throw very large sums of money at sports in the olympics. I hope that this allows us to grow as a sport over the next few years and hopefully we can reach parity with the Celtic Nations over the next few years in terms of playing ability.</p><p></p><p>I have a feeling the sport is only going to get a bigger and bigger profile in this country as time goes on.[/TD]</p><p>[/TR]</p><p></tbody>[/TABLE]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Canadian_Rugger, post: 505144, member: 12699"] This was just posted on the Rugby Canada website [TABLE="width: 100%, align: left"] <tbody>[TR] [TD="bgcolor: black"][FONT=arial][SIZE=4][B]REAFFIRMING COMMITMENT TO RUGBY'S DEVELOPMENT[/B][/SIZE][/FONT] [URL="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&username=rsminc"][IMG]http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif[/IMG][/URL][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD="bgcolor: #DDDDDD"][TABLE] <tbody>[TR] [TD][FONT=verdana][SIZE=1][I]Thursday, May 24, 2012 - Submitted by RC Communications[/I][/SIZE][/FONT][/TD] [/TR] </tbody>[/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][FONT=Verdana] [LIST] [*]Rugby Canada going from strength to strength [*]Participation on the rise [*]Road to Rio 2016 underway [/LIST] Canada is perfectly positioned to reap the benefits of rugby 7s inclusion in the 2016 Olympic Games thanks to the strong partnership between the Canadian Olympic Committee, Sport Canada, Own the Podium and Rugby Canada. With a little over four years to go until the finest men's and women's rugby 7s athletes compete on the world's greatest sporting stage, the foundations are firmly in place to deliver competitive teams for the qualification process and ensure that rugby continues its strong growth across Canada. Rugby is booming in Canada. There are now in excess of 80,000 athletes, spanning from youth to adult, playing the sport across the country and with Olympic inclusion inspiring a new generation of athletes, Canada's men's and women's 7s and 15s programs continue to impress on the world stage. The Canadian Men's 15s team enjoyed a solid Rugby World Cup 2011 campaign, defeating Tonga and pushing France close. The Men's 7s team now has coveted core status on the prestigious HSBC Sevens World Series, while the Women's 7s team is ranked amongst the best in the world, winning the inaugural IRB Women's Challenge Cup event in Dubai last November. "We are delighted with and committed to our partnership with Rugby Canada. Rugby is a dynamic and inclusive team sport that embodies the Olympic values of respect, team work and fair play," said CEO of Own the Podium Anne Merklinger, speaking at a special Canadian Olympic Committee event at Sport Accord in Quebec. "We are working in collaboration with all stakeholders to jointly foster the game and ensure that our teams are in the best-possible position to qualify for and be highly-competitive on the world's greatest sporting stage." "These are exciting times for rugby in Canada. We have more than 80,000 men, women and children actively participating in the game and interest and profile is certainly on a high," said Pat Aldous, Chairman of the Board of Directors for Rugby Canada. "Olympic inclusion has boosted interest, profile and participation in both 7s and 15s. Our men's and women's teams continue to do Canada proud on the world stage and we are very excited about rugby 7s Olympic Games debut in 2016." IRB Chairman Bernard Lapasset said that Olympic inclusion is benefitting national federations around the world. "We are already seeing the enormous benefit of Olympic Games inclusion for our national federations and I am delighted that there is such a strong bond between Rugby Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee to foster the game in Canada and deliver strong national teams in 7s and 15s."[/FONT][/QUOTE][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][URL]http://www.rugbycanada.ca/leagues/newsletter.cfm?clientID=3817&leagueID=0&page=61683[/URL] I can say compared to where rugby was 10 years ago in this country it is now on the up and gaining more and more of a profile. We had a little over 40,000 rugby players registered over 5 to 6 years ago and that number has nearly doubled in that time span making rugby one of the fastest growing sports in this country, Ontario alone now has over 25,000 boys in secondary school playing rugby. There is talk again about creating a national university championship for the men again and I believe with the olympics now including rugby this is far more likely to occur. Likewise the inclusion of "Own the Podium" money for rugby is going to pay huge dividends for our athletes. Canadians like Americans love the Olympics and as a result throw very large sums of money at sports in the olympics. I hope that this allows us to grow as a sport over the next few years and hopefully we can reach parity with the Celtic Nations over the next few years in terms of playing ability. I have a feeling the sport is only going to get a bigger and bigger profile in this country as time goes on.[/TD] [/TR] </tbody>[/TABLE] [/QUOTE]
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