Tournament organisers played a Russian song after Georgia's victory over Uruguay.
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All Hail the Return Of The Rugby World Cup Drop-goal!
Rejoice! It’s the return of the Rugby World Cup drop-goal in Japan! It feels like we had written the skill off as a ‘dying art’ but lo, at the 2019…
2019 Rugby World Cup: Scotland 34-0 Samoa
The Scots get their World Cup campaign back on track with a bonus-point win over Samoa
Get to know Fiji’s Jale Vatubua
The hard-hitting Pau centre talks Fiji, family and the future
Michael Cheika: “I don’t know the rules anymore”
The Samu Kerevi-Rhys Patchell incident is the latest tackle controversy to mar the Rugby World Cup
2019 Rugby World Cup: Australia 25-29 Wales
Wales hold on for a narrow victory against the Wallabies in Tokyo
The odds on a drop-goal in the Rugby World Cup final
It is being heralded as one of the most open Rugby World Cup tournaments in history, but will there be something of the familiar in the final? And with the…
2019 Rugby World Cup: Georgia 33-7 Uruguay
Uruguay run out of puff as Georgia power to a bonus-point victory in Kumagaya
Toulouse trio Antoine Dupont, Romain Ntamack and Thomas Ramos
Could Toulouse’s new generation transform the fortunes of France? Gavin Mortimer talks to a triple threat of players
Ben Ryan: “Alivereti Raka will be box office for France”
Former Fiji Sevens coach Ben Ryan explains what debutant winger Alivereti Raka will bring to the France team