RUGBY CANADA AND CBC SPORTS ANNOUNCE 2-YEAR EXTENSION OF PARTNERSHIP

Rugby Canada and CBC Sports today reported an achievement expansion to their association arrangement that guarantees Canada’s Olympic Network will stay the home of global rugby sevens in Canada for the following two years.

The augmentation incorporates the transmission privileges for the live Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022 (September 9-11) and the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, for which CBC Sports has as of now exhibited far reaching inclusion of the Dubai and Spain occasions in 2021-22.

As a component of the arrangement, which has been set up since December 2017, CBC Sports will convey multi-stage live streaming inclusion of rugby sevens in Canada by means of the free CBC Gem web-based feature, cbcsports.ca and the CBC Sports application for iOS and Android gadgets, as well as select transmission inclusion on CBC TV.

CBC Sports’ broad inclusion across CBC stages incorporates this end of the week’s Singapore Sevens preceding Canada’s Men’s Sevens group makes its eagerly awaited homecoming for the HSBC Canada Sevens in Vancouver, trailed by Canada’s Women’s Sevens group’s return for the HSBC Canada Women’s Sevens in Langford.

Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022 Tickets

Tickets for the two occasions can be bought here. CBC Sports’ impending transmission and streaming timetable can be seen as here. “Canada has a solid practice in worldwide rugby and we anticipate further intensifying the thrilling game of rugby sevens through the expansion of our association with Rugby Canada,” said Chris Wilson, Executive Director, Sports and Olympics, CBC. “Looking forward to Paris 2024, CBC Sports will guarantee that Canadians can follow and commend the excursion of our country’s rugby sevens groups in their quest for the platform.”

“CBC Sports has given uncommon inclusion and openness to the sevens game in Canada for various years, and we are excited to have them go on as a transmission accomplice for the following two years,” remarked Gareth Rees, Director, Commercial Partnerships and Broadcast, Rugby Canada. “This understanding will permit us to keep making a-list rugby sevens activity accessible to all fans across Canada by means of CBC’s available transmission and online channels.”

The HSBC World Rugby Sevens comprises of people’s competitions held all over the planet including public groups. Toward the finish of each season a general hero is delegated in light of the focuses acquired at every one of the competitions.

The Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022 in South Africa will be the eighth release of the occasion and the fourth to incorporate all kinds of people groups. Canada’s Women’s and Men’s Sevens groups will play at the 2022 RAN Sevens Qualifiers (April 23-24) for an opportunity to get their places in South Africa.

About Rugby Canada

Rugby Canada is the public administering body of the game of Rugby Union in Canada. They regulate and work Men’s and Women’s Senior and Junior National projects in both rugby 15s and 7s, as well as administer the Club and local area game for in excess of 30,000 enrolled members from one coast to another related to ten Provincial Union individuals.

Rugby Canada is settled at the Al Charron National Training Center in Langford, BC, dwelling on the unceded domains of the Coast Salish and Lekwungen/Songhees people groups, with staff additionally working from Vancouver, Toronto and Ottawa. Rugby Canada business activities, projects and occasions are conveyed from one side of the country to the other, including the universally perceived HSBC Canada Sevens yearly competitions.

About CBC Sports

CBC/Radio-Canada will be Canada’s Olympic Network and Canada’s Paralympic Network through 2024. The public telecaster is focused on exhibiting Canadian and worldwide competitors and sports across all stages under the CBC Sports and Hockey Night in Canada brands, remembering for TV, online at cbcsports.ca and through the CBC Sports application for iOS and Android gadgets. CBC Sports values recounting the narrative of the elite exhibition competitor’s excursion constantly, guaranteeing Canadians generally know individuals who address them before they see them on the platform.

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