\n| World Rugby has confirmed its immediate withdrawal as a member of SportAccord following approval by its Executive Committee.<\/p>\n World Rugby President Bernard Lapasset\u2019s motion to suspend membership until there is clarity regarding SportAccord\u2019s function and role within the global sporting community and also a detailed review of SportAccord\u2019s governance and management, was unanimously approved.<\/p>\n Lapasset said: \u201cI have informed President Vizer that World Rugby has suspended its membership of SportAccord with immediate effect.<\/p>\n \u201cWorld Rugby is committed to the Olympic movement and the principle of sport working together for the betterment of sport and society and will continue to work in partnership with ASOIF and the IOC to ensure meaningful representation of sport at all levels.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As we currently are satisfied with the conduct and decision making of the individuals currently holding posts within the organisation World Rugby, InTouch Rugby the largest circulating grassroots rugby website in the world will no longer be carrying any pr from the organisation SportAccord.\u00a0 We draw your attention to the media release sent to outlets […]<\/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":[13038,3959,16613,16612,5670],"class_list":["post-86778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-membership","tag-rugby","tag-sportaccord","tag-suspends","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86778","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=86778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638328,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86778\/revisions\/638328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |