{"id":73081,"date":"2014-09-18T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=73081"},"modified":"2014-09-18T22:31:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T21:31:45","slug":"irb-clarification-olympic-eligibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/irb-clarification-olympic-eligibility\/","title":{"rendered":"IRB Clarification on Olympic Eligibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IRB 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":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14953,14954,17371,6263,6044],"class_list":["post-73081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-clarification","tag-eligibility","tag-irb","tag-olympic","tag-on"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73081"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73085,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73081\/revisions\/73085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}