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Former Welsh winger Nigel Walker who is one of the fastest players to ever play the game was an Olympic hurdler who competed at the highest level before turning to rugby.

Walker shares his thoughts on the possibility of Sevens Rugby becoming part of the Olympic Games and also looks back on his career.

Today’s Olympic rugby expert comes from Germany. Manuel Wilhelm shares some insight into German rugby and the benefits the Olympic inclusion would bring to his country - one of the rugby world's 'sleeping giants'

He is one of the guys behind olympic-rugby.org (signature number 6), but also the founder of Germany's biggest rugby website, TotalRugby.de

Rugby historian Frédéric Humbert sent us an excellent bit of Olympic rugby history and one that certainly belongs into the Olympic hall of fame at that.

The story of Daniel Carroll who was three times rugby Olympic champion! Believe it! He won the rugby Olympics in 1908 with Australia, then emigrated and played again many years later in 1920 also taking Gold, this time with the USA and he did the same for an amazing third time in 1924 with the USA this time as coach.

Our fourth installment of Olympic rugby Expert opinions takes us to South America. Today’s expert Esteban Duffour from Argentina’s Olivos Rugby Club, has a plenty of experience in the Sevens format.

He shares his vision of Argentinean rugby if Sevens features at the Games and makes a passionate case for Rio as host city for the 2016 Olympics which should see rugby re-introduced to this exciting stage.

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Olympic-rugby.org brings you the next part in our series of expert opinions on our favourite topic. Today we caught up with Bernardo Rosmaninho from Portugal who's national side has been the surprise package in recent years.

After his playing career Bernardo identified a need for information about all Portuguese competitions and clubs, promoting and contributing to the effort of making their rugby known to the Portuguese public and rugby fans everywhere. The answer: rugbyportugal.com

Portugal of course is one of the rising stars in Sevens and they proved that yet again making the finals of the World Games last weekend.

A true and supremely knowledgeable expert shares some amazing insight into crucial rugby questions both global and local.

In part two of our Expert Opinions series we caught up with a USA based rugby expert, Wendy Young from Texas who lives and breathes rugby and also writes a lively blog called yourscrumhalfconnection.com

We get some great insight into the USA rugby scene and the potential the Olympic inclusion holds for countries who are still to break into the big time.

This of course is a headline you well may read in 2016 when rugby hopefully makes its return to the Olympics. But it is also the latest news from the World Games - the Olympics little sister for sports that are not included (yet).

In Chinese Taipei, Fiji beat surprise finalists Portugal 43-10 and successfully defended their World Games title in front of a capacity crowd.

The two day tournament in Kaohsiung was watched by 39 000 passionate fans which proved yet again the attraction Sevens rugby has in the Games format.

Olympic-rugby.org will bring you a series of expert opinions on our favourite topic. Today we caught up with Tim Lacey, the founder of Ultimate Rugby Sevens, a pioneering entity set up to promote every level of Sevens rugby worldwide.

Tim who signed the petition at number 37590 and his team run UR7s.com – the online home ‘for everything 7s’ and of course have been flying rugby’s Olympic flag.

We're tackling the question of rugby's chances of inclusion as well as the burning debate around a Great Britain or British and Irish Lions team for the Olympics

'This is why we love rugby'. We get a chance to think and say it pretty much every day in replies to emails we get with ideas, support and suggestions from places all over the world from A rgentina to Z imbabwe - cheers to all of you rugby mad people! We all know rugby is a great sport, but also a powerful glue that binds us all together. People have always been passionate about sport - starting back in the ancient Olympics, when guys still competed naked as somebody rightly pointed out in our Facebook group - they didn't play rugby yet. William Webb Ellis' moment of genius was a bit later.

There definitely is passion in rugby, for many good and honest on the field reasons and maybe there is even a little more than in other sports because it is a bit exotic, most definitely special and because it is well, rugby. Even in most so called 'non rugby' countries anyone wearing a rugby shirt will sooner or later get a big knowing smile from somebody or find themselves tied up in some friendly rugby chat, you gotta love the power of our sport.

Isn't it great to know that you can most certainly trust that burly looking dude with the cauliflower ears and the broken nose who is trying to sell you some insurance or a trip to Asia? Yes you can and you also know exactly why - because many others who have played with the guy have been able to do the same and it all starts with the tight five!

Earlier this week we sent out a mailer to everyone who has signed the petition so far. There is passion in rugby yes and each and every one of us has experienced what it is like to be the underdog, so we all know when to step up and be counted. This is what most of you did this week for rugby's Olympic inclusion.

The power of U - here it is. This is what happened with our servers when so many of you decided to pass on the mailer and spread the word. Oh yeah! Hands will do - rugby goes over in the corner and wins the Olympic test match! You absolute legends!

It works, take it and send it on. This is why we love rugby. No further questions. Crouch, touch and pause - Engage!