Twenty countries competing at Rugby World Cup
The Rugby World Cup gets under way in France on Friday and will feature 20 countries from five continents scrapping it out for a golden trophy named after an Englishman who supposedly invented the sport when he picked up the ball during a soccer game and ran with it.
This World Cup is a special milestone for rugby and marks the 200th anniversary of William Webb Ellis’s rebellious act in 1823 that gave birth to a new, oval-ball game – if you believe the legend.Rugby’s reach While the first Rugby World Cup was held only in 1987 and doesn’t have the reach or interest of a soccer World Cup or an Olympics, more than 850 million people watched the last tournament in Japan, according to the game’s governing body. That’s about eight times more than a Super Bowl audience, although the World Cup is a bruising seven-week, 48-game tournament.
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