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Six Nations and Sanzaar face new battle with World Rugby in bid to scrap relegation

F10 unions fear financial loss if they play in second tier Promotion/relegation set for 2030 Nations Championship The Six Nations and Sanzaar are facing another battle with World Rugby over a desire from some unions to ensure that none of them can be relegated from the Nations Championship. As reported last week by the Guardian, the 10 leading unions have set up a new company, F10, to run the Nations Championship and sell their broadcast and commercial rights for all competitions other than the World Cup, which remains the property of the global governing body, World Rugby. Continue reading...

The Guardian
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Sisters in Sweat: how a former Spurs player got 20,000 Indian women into sport

A dinner-party question, a Sunday kickabout and an idea that snowballed. Nine years on, Tanvie Hans and Swetha Subbiah have taken sporting sisterhood to 10 cities On a breezy evening in 2017, as conversations flowed and so did the drinks at a dinner party, Tanvie Hans was asked an all-too-familiar question at the table: “Hey, can you teach me how to play football?” For the Indian-born British footballer, who played professionally in England, it was an easy yes. Continue reading...

The Guardian
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