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After 92Years Rugby Returns to Rio as Olympic Sport in a Spruced Up Version - Kridangan Sports
Rugby was played as a medal sport in Olympics for the first time in 1900 Paris Games. In London’s 1908 Olympics, the sport made its second appearance but it was excluded from the 1912 Games at Stockholm. The Olympic Games were not held in 1916 because of World War I but Rugby came back in 1920 Games at Antwerp and 1924 Games in Paris. Afterwards, the International Olympic Committee dropped Rugby from the Olympics. Since then, several nations and sports organizations have appealed IOC to bring the sport back into the Olympic fold. Such efforts went in vain because IOC was