WELLINGTON (Xinhua) — Argentina’s Pumas gave the home team a tough battle in their quarterfinal clash at the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand on Sunday, before finally succumbing to the superior strength of the All Blacks to go down 33-10. Argentina kept New Zealand on their toes in the first half at Auckland’s Eden [...]
France stunned England and Wales overpowered Ireland to become the first teams to reach the Rugby World Cup semi-finals on Saturday. The French put their stuttering group phase form behind them to shock England 19-12 in Auckland after Wales defeated Ireland 22-10 in Wellington.
By Maja Wallengren MONTEVIDEO (Xinhua) — Uruguay beat Bolivia 4-2 at home on Friday in their first qualifier for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Uruguay, which recently won the Copa America, was from the beginning of the match the dominating part in the Centenario stadium in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo.
CANBERRA (Xinhua) — Australia national rugby union team, Wallabies, on Saturday welcomes back the return of full-back Kurtley Beale, winger Digby Ioane and center Pat McCabe, ahead of Saturday’s World Cup quarter-final against South Africa in Wellington of New Zealand. Due to injury of the three players, Wallabies coach Robbie Deans made seven changes to [...]
Injuries have forced the All Blacks to again rejig their line up with six changes to the run-on side to play Argentina in a World Cup quarter-final here on Sunday when Mils Muliaina plays his 100th Test. There’s a further positional change with midfielder Sonny Bill Williams moving to the wing where Zac Guildford, Israel [...]
