News this week of the France scrum-half, one of the sport’s few global stars, turning his attention to sevens in order to play at the Paris 2024 Olympics is superb for rugby. And it is now on ...

Rugby sevens is played with seven players on each ... the game and forced to sit out for two minutes for dangerous play.

As a collision sport, rugby union has a relatively high overall injury incidence, with most injuries being associated with contact events. Historically, the set scrum has been a focus of the sports ...

This weekend's action in the Autumn internationals sees Ireland host New Zealand in rematch of last year's Rugby World Cup ...

The 27-year-old scrum-half is not the first to attempt the switch from XVs to sevens. In 2016, three stars of XVs rugby - Sonny Bill Williams, Quade Cooper and Bryan Habana - embarked on Mission ...

Brian O'Driscoll, Danny Care, Jamie Roberts, Sean Fitzpatrick and John Barclay try to come up with answers to rugby's biggest ...

World Rugby on Tuesday proposed a series of changes ... Mauls can only stop once before the team with the ball has to move it away. Scrum-halves will receive what World Ruby called "enhanced ...

The national rugby sevens outfit were crowned champions after ... a set piece Shujaa lost after the referee awarded a scrum to Shogun after the lineout throw not being straight.

Scrum-half Antoine Dupont during a Stade Toulousain ... Read more Subscribers only Paris Olympics: Dupont and his rugby sevens men win France's first gold medal He has surely been looking forward ...

with 30-second scrum and lineout put-in limits add timed conversions. At lineouts, if the ball is not thrown in straight but the opposition does jump, play will continue. World Rugby tested the ...