Well, the usual terms of Rugby football "rugby". So now-a-days rugby is the mainstream word. Rugby is developed in different areas of the United Kingdom. Rugby union is both a professional & amateur game, and is dominated by the first tier unions: South Africa, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Scotland, Argentina, Australia, England, France and Wales. Second and third tier unions include Canada, Chile, Fiji, Georgia, Japan, Namibia, Portugal, Romania, Samoa, Spain, Tonga, the United States and Uruguay. Rugby Union is administered by the International Rugby Board (IRB), whose headquarters are located in Dublin, Ireland. It is the national sport in New Zealand, South Africa, Wales, Madagascar, Samoa, Tonga & Fiji, and is the most popular form of rugby globally, with the seven-a-side version of the game, known as Rugby Sevens, having been admitted into the programme of the Olympic Games from Rio de Janeiro in 2016 onwards. There is also a possibility that Rugby Sevens will also be a demonstration sport at the 2012 London Olympics. The fifteen-a-side version of Rugby Union was last played at the Olympic Games in Paris 1924, with the United States winning the gold medal, defeating France in the final 17-3. Rugby league is also both a professional & amateur game, administered on a global level by the RLIF(Rugby League International Federation). In addition to the countless amateur & semi professional competitions in countries such as the UK,US, Russia, Lebanon and across Europe and Australasia, there are two major professional competitions worldwide—the
Australasian National Rugby League and the
European Super League. That's it.
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