{"id":2616,"date":"2014-03-04T10:40:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T10:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2014-03-04T10:40:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T10:40:23","slug":"cardiff-to-bid-for-2018-rugby-world-cup-sevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2014\/03\/04\/cardiff-to-bid-for-2018-rugby-world-cup-sevens\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff to bid for 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_967\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-967\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/millennium-stadium-virtual_tony-2000.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-967\" alt=\"Cardiff's Millennium Stadium. (Picture: virtual_tony2000)\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/millennium-stadium-virtual_tony-2000.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"787\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-967\" alt=\"Cardiff's Millennium Stadium. (Picture: virtual_tony2000)\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/millennium-stadium-virtual_tony-2000.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"787\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Cardiff&#8217;s Millennium Stadium. (Picture: virtual_tony2000)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nCardiff\u2019s Millennium Stadium is in contention to host the 2018 Men and Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup Sevens after the Welsh Rugby Union announced yesterday they will bid for the tournament.<br \/>\nWales, winners of the 2009 tournament, join the USA, England, South Africa, Scotland, Portugal, Singapore, New Zealand, Spain, Netherlands, Fiji and Hong Kong in bidding to host the competition.<br \/>\nAlongside the World Cup bid Welsh officials are also hoping to host a round of the IRB\u2019s Sevens World Series from the 2015\/16 at the 74,500 seater Millennium Stadium.<br \/>\nWRU chief executive Roger Lewis has welcomed the bid, he said: \u201cWe are delighted to announce that we are bidding to host the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens tournament at the Millennium Stadium.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Millennium Stadium is an ideal venue to host the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens and everyone at the WRU will be working extremely hard in the immediate future to ensure we convey that message to the IRB and to the rugby watching world.\u201d<br \/>\nWhile the more traditional form of the game tends to rule in Wales, Rugby Sevens is growing in popularity, something highlighted by its status as the newest Olympic sport.<br \/>\nMr Lewis gave the WRU\u2019s backing to Sevens, he said: \u201cRugby Sevens has an enormous global appeal, highlighted most recently by its nomination as the newest Olympic sport ahead of 2016.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff\u2019s Millennium Stadium is in contention to host the 2018 Men and Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup Sevens after the Welsh Rugby Union announced yesterday they will bid for the tournament. Wales, winners of the 2009 tournament, join the USA, England, South Africa, Scotland, Portugal, Singapore, New Zealand, Spain, Netherlands, Fiji and Hong Kong in bidding to host the competition. Alongside the World Cup bid Welsh officials are also hoping to host a round of the IRB\u2019s Sevens World Series from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,4],"tags":[1291,2015,154,2016],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby","category-sport","tag-cardiff-2","tag-millennium-stadium","tag-rugby-2","tag-rugby-sevens"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cardiff to bid for 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens - The Cardiffian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2014\/03\/04\/cardiff-to-bid-for-2018-rugby-world-cup-sevens\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cardiff to bid for 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens - The Cardiffian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cardiff\u2019s Millennium Stadium is in contention to host the 2018 Men and Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup Sevens after the Welsh Rugby Union announced yesterday they will bid for the tournament. 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