Olympic Legacy: The Future for Women's Rugby

It's fair to say that rugby 7s enjoyed a successful Olympic debut in Rio. Casual viewers and addicts morphed into one as Australia and Fiji picked up the first rugby gold medals for 92 years. With the men’s game producing the big name stars, perhaps the biggest success story was the exposure the Games gave to women’s rugby Not only kicking off rugby’s long-overdue return to the Olympics, women’s rugby was given an unprecedented standalone platform, independent of their male counterparts over the first weekend. Whether by design or default, many of the teams enjoyed far greater media c…