Voting starts as Bill Beaumont and Agustín Pichot battle to control World Rugby, and their backstories are just as contrasting as their visions for the sport
So concludes the election campaign to be World Rugby’s top dog. Voting has begun, though we will not know for sure whether Bill Beaumont or Agustín Pichot has prevailed for more than two weeks. There are, of course, mitigating circumstances but, as convoluted processes go, you might have thought lessons would be learned from the contest to host the 2023 World Cup (more on that later).
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Written by Gerard Meagher
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2020/apr/26/bill-beaumont-agustin-pichot-world-rugby-election-rugby-union under the title “Scrum time for Beaumont and Pichot: the dinosaur v the dynamo | Gerard Meagher”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
