The Springboks are just a few weeks away from officially starting their 2025 Test season, which begins with a warm-up clash ...

Why do France so often win the Six Nations the year after a British & Irish Lions tour? With Les Bleus reigning again in 2025 ...

It is 30 years since the Springboks won the World Cup and while rugby has changed, the world continues to deliver shock ...

Reflecting on 30 years since the Springboks' historic World Cup victory, this article explores the cultural and global events ...

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one of the world's best rugby union players but currently sidelined with a knee injury, and his company Ouest Coast have joined its ownership group. No financial details were released. Dupont led ...

France captain Antoine Dupont, widely regarded as one of the best rugby union players of his era, has joined the ownership group of Rugby Football Club Los Angeles (RFCLA). Dupont, 28, joins the ...

France's Marine Menager grabs Canada's Alex Tessier's leg as she runs the ball during WXV 1 women's rugby union action, in Vancouver on September 29, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns After a ...

Former France rugby union international Sebastien Chabal says he cannot “remember a single second” of his career. Chabal played 62 times for France between 2000 and 2011, with whom he won the ...

Former France international Sebastien Chabal ... The players allege World Rugby, the Welsh Rugby Union and the RFU failed to establish reasonable measures to protect their health and safety.

While World Rugby was celebrating historic profits, the French National Rugby Federation was dealing with a budget hole of $37.8 million (€35 million). Now, the Court of Auditors is pointing to ...

So what did we learn from a dramatic final day of explosive Six Nations action, with one eye on the 2027 Rugby World Cup in Australia which is starting to shimmer on the horizon? Well France will ...