{"id":2368,"date":"2014-09-18T09:24:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T08:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2014-09-18T22:27:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T21:27:40","slug":"irb-clarification-olympic-eligibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/irb-clarification-olympic-eligibility\/","title":{"rendered":"IRB Clarification on Olympic Eligibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/irb-olympic-rugby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/irb-olympic-rugby.jpg\" alt=\"irb olympic rugby\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/irb-olympic-rugby.jpg 640w, https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/irb-olympic-rugby-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIRB Clarification on Olympic Eligibility<\/p>\n<p>The International Rugby Board has announced the details of rulings made by the IRB Regulations Committee relating to Regulation 8 (eligibility) and 9 (player release) to further assist Member Unions with their Olympic Games Rugby Sevens preparations. <\/p>\n<p>With the global qualification process for Rugby Sevens\u2019 Olympic Games debut set to begin in October (men) and December (women), the Regulations Committee convened on September 2 to assist Unions with queries and ensure unity and consistency of implementation of the regulations. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irb.com\/mm\/Document\/Home\/Olympics\/02\/07\/29\/78\/140915SAREG8OlympicEligibity-RegulationsCommitteeRulings-2Sept2014.pdf\">CLICK HERE FOR THE RULINGS >> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>IRB Chairman Bernard Lapasset said: \u201cThese rulings of the IRB Regulations Committee will further assist our Unions with their preparation and underscores our commitment to ensure a successful and spectacular Olympic Games debut at Rio 2016 and beyond.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IRB Clarification on Olympic Eligibility The International Rugby Board has announced the details of rulings made by the IRB Regulations Committee relating to Regulation 8 (eligibility) and 9 (player release) to further assist Member Unions with their Olympic Games Rugby Sevens preparations. With the global qualification process for Rugby Sevens\u2019 Olympic Games debut set to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1836],"tags":[1168,1169,7,861,104],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","tag-clarification","tag-eligibility","tag-irb","tag-olympic","tag-on"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}