Blog: Rugby Is Taking Good Advantage of Its Olympic Boost

When rugby players take the field for the 2016 Summer Olympics, it will mark the sport's return to that big stage for the first time since 1924. Ninety-two years is a long drought, and really puts the loss of other sports, like baseball and softball, into perspective.

A lot of people may not be aware of this, but during that nine-decade interim, the sport of rugby has been alive and well in America. It has been wildly popular around the world, too. Currently in the U.S., there are high school and college teams, both varsity and club level, as well as teams that play in rec leagues. USA Rugby, the national governing body, says membership has grown from 50,000 in 2007 to more than 115,000 today. They also have more than 750,000 kids who aren't registered but who participate regularly in USA Rugby's in-school and after-school programs.

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