CEO Alan Gilpin open to Rugby World Cup every two years but players' congested calendars will need to be considered
World Rugby CEO Alan Gilpin said staging the Rugby World Cup every two years instead of every four is an “interesting concept”, but that all stakeholders would have to be given their say before the idea was even considered.
Gilpin, World Rugby chair Bill Beaumont and France 2023 director-general Claude Atcher met in Paris this week, and though World Rugby said a biennial World Cup was not among items on the agenda and remains unlikely in the near future, it is not being totally dismissed. With the continuing pressure to ease player workload and reform the sport’s calendar — an even hotter topic after the launch last week of a potential new 12-a-side competition — a change from the four-year cycle would seem unlikely any time soon.
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