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Both teams that played in the cracking final at the London Sevens, winners England as well as New Zealand got behind www.olympic-rugby.org - see the photos here. Like so many great rugby websites out there, www.rugbydump.com now also back the petition - here the best of the London Finals:

The England team won a nail biter of a final in sudden-death extra time against New Zealand 31-26 to claim the London Sevens at Twickenham on the weekend. The team around all time Sevens top scorer Ben Gollings are firmly backing http://www.olympic-rugby.org and rugby's inclusion into the Olympics.

Jean de Villiers The Springbok centre, who is the SA Rugby Player of the Year, believes that Rugby at the greatest sporting event on the planet will further add to the sporting spectacle which runs every four years.
De Villiers, who started his international career in 2002 on the Sevens circuit, has developed into one of the world’s best centres and has Rugby World Cup, IRB Under 21 World Championship and Tri Nations winners' medals to his name.

Look at this awesome piece of rugby history. The USA playing France in the Final of the 1924 Paris Olympics. Take a look at the crowd, the place was absolutely packed! Unfathomable that rugby got excluded from the Games shortly afterwards.

Hello to you, the rugby world! What a weekend is was! Heineken Cup Final, Super 14 semi finals, London 7s!

Well done to you, the rugby world!
Last night you have cracked the 1000 mark after only 30 live hours!

olympic-rugby.org has been out the box for just over 12 hours and it is ticking over beautifully! The Olympic inclusion decision gets made in October, so if this initiative was a rugby match of 80 minutes we'd now be 2 seconds past the kick-off and we've already scored! Sensational!

Baron Pierre de Coubertin, yes, the man himself resurrected the Olympic Games and - stroke of genius, introduced Rugby in 1900. He also played the great game and even refereed the first ever French Championship final, which was won by Racing Club de Paris.

While the Rugby season across the globe heats up with intense semi-finals and finals being played all round, an epic British and Irish Lions tour looming and the Sevens coming to a much anticipated climax, a new initiative is getting ready for action. Olympic-rugby.org is a petition to get Rugby to the Games.