Alan Gilpin says the decision to hold the first tournament outside rugby’s traditional heartlands has been vindicated
Alan Gilpin, the Rugby World Cup tournament director. Picture: DAVID ROGERS / GETTY IMAGES
It was also “the biggest single-sport event ever held in Japan”, said the report, which was commissioned by the sports governing body World Rugby and conducted by consulting firm EY. “It was one of the great if not the greatest of Rugby World Cups,” World Cup chief Alan Gilpin told Reuters on Wednesday.
“Japan 2019 was a success on every metric,” Gilpin added, noting that the decision to hold the first Rugby World Cup outside the sport’s traditional heartlands had been vindicated.
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