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Article: RU: World Cup not just about money, says IRB chief

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AAP Sports News (Australia)
10-09-2007
RU: World Cup not just about money, says IRB chief

By Julian Guyer

PARIS, Oct 9 AFP - Syd Millar, the chairman of the International Rugby Board (IRB),
has said the World Cup is more than just about making money.

The ongoing World Cup in France is expected to post some impressive figures for the
latest edition of an event which, the IRB maintains, is now the third biggest in global
sport behind the Olympic Games and the football World Cup.

However, the next Rugby World Cup in 2011 will be staged in New Zealand, one of rugby
union's traditional powers but a country with a relatively small population and a lack
of large capacity grounds whose ...

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