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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Rugby 00:01:30 1 History 00:05:34 2 Member unions 00:06:54 2.1 Africa 00:07:14 2.2 Asia 00:07:32 2.3 Europe 00:07:50 2.4 North America 00:08:08 2.5 South America 00:08:25 2.6 Oceania 00:08:37 3 Participation figures 00:09:26 4 Governance 00:09:35 4.1 Council 00:11:36 4.2 Executive Committee 00:12:20 4.3 General Assembly 00:12:44 4.4 Leadership 00:13:31 5 Funding 00:14:38 6 Tournaments 00:14:46 6.1 Rugby World Cups 00:16:36 6.2 Sevens 00:18:35 6.3 Developmental competitions 00:19:39 6.4 Junior competitions 00:20:06 6.5 Current title holders 00:20:15 7 Olympics 00:22:40 8 Laws and regulations 00:23:30 8.1 Experimental law variations 00:24:05 9 Anti-doping 00:24:53 10 World rankings 00:26:24 11 Recognitions and awards 00:30:52 12 See also Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91 Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= World Rugby is the world governing body for the sport of rugby union. World Rugby organises the Rugby World Cup every four years, the sport's most recognised and most profitable competition. It also organises a number of other international rugby competitions, such as the World Rugby Sevens Series, the Rugby World Cup Sevens, the World Under 20 Championship, and the Pacific Nations Cup. World Rugby's headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland. Its membership now comprises 120 national unions. Each member country must also be a member of one of the six regional unions into which the world is divided: Africa, Americas North, Asia, Europe, South America and Oceania.World Rugby was founded as the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) in 1886 by Scotland, Wales and Ireland, with England joining in 1890. Australia, New Zealand and South Africa became full members in 1949. France became a member in 1978 and a further eighty members joined from 1987 to 1999. The body was renamed the International Rugby Board (IRB) in 1998, and took up its current name of World Rugby in November 2014.In 2009, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted to include rugby sevens in the 2016 Summer Olympics. World Rugby gained membership of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) in 2010. |