1. 16538

      USA

      Tiffany Alvarado | USA

    2. 16537

      USA

      Brendan Huggins | USA | Newark

      My team: University of Delaware
      Its the fastest paced and most exciting sport they could add, and would be one of the top attended sports at the Olympics.
    3. 16530

      USA

      Lara Vivolo | USA

    4. 16529

      USA

      Rosemary Daley | USA | Washington DC

      My team: Northern Virginia Women's Rugby Club
    5. 16525

      USA

      Colin Dillon | USA | Milwaukee

      My team: Marquette University Rugby Football Club
      Sport know around the world and has been around for a very long time.
    6. 16523

      USA

      Nick Strenk | USA | Santa Monica, CA

      My team: Santa Monica Rugby Club
      High worldwide participation and level of competition. Spirit of camaraderie. Tradition of international play.
    7. 16522

      USA

      Judy Abarbanel | USA | Los Angeles

      My team: Santa Monica Old Girls
    8. 16519

      USA

      Lauren Hoeck | USA | Washington, DC

      My team: NOVA
      Gorgeous display of athleticism. Good parity in the game (both men's and women's).
    9. 16512

      USA

      Maria Vastola | USA | Washington, DC

      My team: Maryland Stingers
      Because it is a sport which accommodates both men and women and is played across the world. It is face paced and a great spectator sport.
    10. 16508

      USA

      miles cotton | USA

    11. 16507

      USA

      Zachary Hiller | USA | Houston

      Because it is the greatest sport in the world
    12. 16506

      USA

      Kevin Melarkey | USA

    13. 16505

      USA

      Les Lundquest | USA | Toledo, OH

      My team: Toledo Rugby Football Club
      It's a global sport. Better then ping-pong that actually is in the Olympics.
    14. 16504

      USA

      Arya Koolaee | USA | Potomac

      My team: UMBC
    15. 16503

      USA

      Nicholas Luckett | USA | Santa Monica

    16. 16502

      USA

      Taylor Wroblewski | USA | Denver

      My team: Too Small
      Because it's the most epic sport EVA!
    17. 16499

      USA

      jeremy dolan | USA | Santa Monica

      My team: Santa Monica Rugby Club
      Rugby is a truly worldwide game with a truly broad spectrum of players and supporters. It absolutely encompasses the spirit of the Olympic games in sportsmanship and athleticism.
    18. 16497

      USA

      Keith Rau | USA

    19. 16496

      USA

      Lori Poindexter | USA | Sacramento

      My team: Jesuit High School
      Rugby is the ultimate fitness sport!
    20. 16495

      USA

      Brei Gussack | USA | Washington, DC

      My team: Referee
    21. 16494

      USA

      Andrew Wolf | USA

    22. 16493

      USA

      Michael Cotten | USA | Houston, Tx

      My team: Houston Athletic Rugby Club
      It's just as big a sport internationally as soccer and definately tennis, both of which are olympic events.
    23. 16489

      USA

      Christopher Kelley | USA

    24. 16487

      USA

      Amanda Busch | USA | Houston

      My team: HARC
    25. 16485

      USA

      Ryan Walker | USA

    26. 16476

      USA

      jonathan arentsen | USA | Los Angeles

      My team: Santa Monica RFC
    27. 16475

      USA

      Sue Parker | USA

    28. 16473

      USA

      Brooke Cunningham | USA

    29. 16468

      USA

      matþ martin | USA

    30. 16466

      USA

      Kerry Chaplin | USA | West Hollywood, CA

      My team: Santa Monica Women's Rugby Club
      It's becoming more and more a world-wide sport. Let's see it represented on the international stage.
    31. 16465

      USA

      john bloomquist | USA

    32. 16463

      USA

      Jeremiah Buden | USA | New York

      My team: Claremont College Rugby Football Club
      Cause it's bloody awesome.
    33. 16462

      USA

      Leonard May | USA

    34. 16461

      USA

      Neil Apfel | USA | Baltimore

      My team: Queensland Reds
      Because it'll be fun to see the US defend their gold medal.
    35. 16459

      USA

      Jamie Cullen | USA | Los Angeles

      My team: Santa Monica Rugby Club
      Rugby is an ideal Olympic Sport. Look at bthe World Cup, Hong Kong 7's.
    36. 16458

      USA

      Wade La Rouche | USA | Los Angeles

      My team: Santa Monica Rugby Club
    37. 16457

      USA

      Brian FitzGerald | USA | Boston

      My team: Boston Irish Wolfhounds Rugby Football Club
      Rugby is the toughest, most exciting sport on the planet and all the world is playing so it only right that it be included as an Olympic sport.
    38. 16455

      USA

      ELIZABETH PETTIT | USA

    39. 16452

      USA

      phillip harman | USA | baltimore, md

      My team: UMBC retrievers
      It was one of the best olympic sports, and should return to its prowess. Making it an olympic sport could help move to make it a more popular team sport in other parts of the world.
    40. 16449

      USA

      Will Southwood | USA | Baltimore

      With sports such as trampoline and skateboarding, rugby should be a shoe in for an Olympic event.
    41. 16445

      USA

      Emily Birdwhistell | USA

    42. 16444

      USA

      Carmen Requena | USA | Reseda, CA

      My team: USA
      Rugby is a rough, tough, exciting sport. Who wouldn't want to watch.
    43. 16443

      USA

      Christine Moore | USA | Los Angeles

      My team: Santa Monica Womens Rugby
    44. 16442

      USA

      Shawn Smith | USA | Sacramento, CA

      My team: Motley
      Rugby Rocks!
    45. 16440

      USA

      Daniel Danieley | USA

      It's much more exciting than Curling. Why was it ever taken away from the olympics?
    46. 16438

      USA

      Naa Korkoi | USA

    47. 16435

      USA

      Joshua Herring | USA

    48. 16430

      USA

      Mafini Tupai | USA | Sacramento

      It is a known sport that the World has been part of for years. Why not?
    49. 16427

      USA

      Kristy Molnar | USA | Sacramento

      My team: Motley
      Rugby is a hard sport and it encourages teamwork. Isn't that what the olympics is all about?
    50. 16426

      USA

      Thomas Irwin | USA

    51. 16425

      USA

      Cris Erdtsieck | USA | Los Angeles

      My team: Santa Monica RFC
    52. 16424

      USA

      Tracie Reed | USA | San Francisco

      My team: All
      It's a great sport for athletes and fans around the glove, and sorely missed at the Olympics.
    53. 16423

      USA

      Misty Planck | USA

    54. 16422

      USA

      Kevin kryder | USA | Portland Oregon

      My team: Portland Pigs
      Opening ruby back up to the Olympics would give several small countries such as Gerogia, Nambia and Fiji a chance to competitively represent their country on a worldwide stage.
    55. 16421

      USA

      Jon Erdtsieck | USA | Los Angeles

      My team: Santa Monica Rugby Club
    56. 16417

      USA

      Joe Bieberich | USA | Baltimore

      My team: UMBC Retrievers
    57. 16414

      USA

      Eric Scott | USA | Sacramento

      My team: Motley
    58. 16413

      USA

      Jayantha Thiyani | USA

    59. 16412

      USA

      Mike Ruby | USA

    60. 16411

      USA

      Rodrigo Lacruz | USA | Los Angeles

      My team: Santa Monica Rugby Club
      definitely an Olympic sport. in the spirit of Coubertain to promote sense of fair play and respect is represented in rugby also involving young sportsmen to develop strength and agility within the context of a full context sport.
    61. 16408

      USA

      Kemper Pierce | USA | Boston

      My team: Dartmouth College
    62. 16406

      USA

      MIchelle Rich | USA

    63. 16405

      USA

      TINA THOMAS | USA | SACRAMENTO

      My team: LAND PARK MOTLEY
    64. 16403

      USA

      Joshua Yakatan | USA

    65. 16402

      USA

      chris moss | USA

    66. 16399

      USA

      Lisa Kovacs-Morgan | USA | San Diego

      My team: Wales
      It is a great sport.
    67. 16396

      USA

      Joanie Ridgeway-Eldridge | USA | Sacramento

      My team: Motley
    68. 16395

      USA

      Angela Freeman | USA | New York

      My team: Brooklyn Women's Rugby
    69. 16393

      USA

      Maxfield Marquardt | USA | Los Angeles

      My team: Santa Monica Dolphins Rugby Club
      Rugby is a highly competative international sport that highlights the athletic strengths of a number of countries around the world
    70. 16391

      USA

      Andrew Dionne | USA | Washington D.C.

      My team: University of Maryland Baltimore County RFC
      With Rugby being in the top 5 popular sports in the world, having the Olympics host a tournament for the games seems to make sense.
    71. 16390

      USA

      Lilia Vreeland | USA

    72. 16389

      USA

      CATHY TUPAI | USA | SACRAMENTO

      My team: MOTLEY LITTLE LEAGUE
    73. 16387

      USA

      Jaff Auchterlonie | USA | Sacramento

      My team: USA Eagles
      It is an international sport with a huge fan base. I would recommend using the international sevens format
    74. 16384

      USA

      Nhut Nguyen | USA | Baltimore

      My team: UMBC rugby
      greatest sport created by GOD
    75. 16383

      USA

      Arman Sertyan | USA | los angeles

      My team: oxy rugby
      rugby is a must- the culture of rugby is the perfect compliment to the spirit of the olympic games-
    76. 16382

      USA

      Chad Menegay | USA

    77. 16379

      USA

      Maureen Botoman | USA | Colorado Springs

      My team: Colorado College
    78. 16377

      USA

      michael peuse | USA | baltimore

      My team: UMBC
      its one of the most popular sports in the world but it still needs to be spread; rugby in the Olympics would further its presence throughout the world.
    79. 16376

      USA

      Melissa Carter | USA

      Rugby requires strength, endurance, agility, and complete mental concentration. That sounds like characteristics of an Olympic sport to me.
    80. 16375

      USA

      Mark Roberson | USA | Sacramento

      My team: Motley
      Rugby is a game that is played worldwide and is without a doubt a sport.
    81. 16374

      USA

      Dana Broadbooks | USA | Los Angeles

      My team: Belmont Shore, California
      It is an international sport, played by women, men and children the world over, for many years. Rugby Fans will travel, use the same pitches as the soccer matches!
    82. 16373

      USA

      melanie Allen | USA | howell

    83. 16372

      USA

      Krystyna Dereszowska | USA | Philadelphia

      My team: UPenn Women
      Because it used to be, is an incredible sport, and the competition is internationally balanced.
    84. 16370

      USA

      David Hughes | USA | Santa Monica

      My team: Santa Moinca Dolphins
      Because its great
    85. 16369

      USA

      Victor E Iturbides | USA | New York City

      It should be in the Olympics’ because its one of the truest Team Sports out there in the world and most importantly it’s a World Sport
    86. 16368

      USA

      Anthony Cantu | USA | Kent

      My team: Seattle Rugby Club
    87. 16367

      USA

      Kathy Madison | USA | Sacramento

      My team: Youth Rugby
      Rugby is an intense sport that is played throughout the world. It should be represented in the Olympics.
    88. 16366

      USA

      Lori Rifkin | USA

    89. 16365

      USA

      Michael Stewart | USA | Los Angeles

      My team: Santa Monica Dolphins
      It's the best team game in the world.
    90. 16364

      USA

      Cyrus Pahl | USA

    91. 16363

      USA

      Nichole Bloom | USA

    92. 16360

      USA

      Tom Manzo | USA | Santa Monica, CA

      My team: Santa Monica Dolphins
      Because it is played by men and women all over the world.
    93. 16359

      USA

      Tony Spagnoli | USA | Los Angeles

      My team: Santa Monica Womans Rugby Team
      Because it's a real sport!
    94. 16358

      USA

      kevin armstrong | USA | los angeles

      My team: santa moncia
      it's one of the most popular sports in the world and by far one of the most exciting. I think someone should be challenged to come up with a reason why it shouldn't be in the olympics. definitely 7's though, not 15's.
    95. 16357

      USA

      Ben Keller | USA

    96. 16356

      USA

      Jeffrey Phillips | USA | Sacramento

      My team: Land Park Youth Rugby
      Rugby is one of the largest non-professional sports in terms of the acutal participants who play the sport.
    97. 16355

      USA

      Debbie Sert | USA | Los Angeles, CA

      My team: Santa Monica Rugby Club
    98. 16354

      USA

      lauren fendorak | USA | Plattsburgh

      My team: Plattsburgh State Women's Rugby
      Rugby are athletes with the same goal is volleyball, pingpong, and gymnastics, To win. It was a cometitive and very entertaining sport that should get the chance to be in the Olympics
    99. 16353

      USA

      Kyle Cover | USA | Baltimore

      My team: UMBC Rugby Football Club
      There is no better test of will and passion than rugby.
    100. 16352

      USA

      John Russoniello | USA | Middletown, NJ

      My team: Monmouth Rugby Football Club

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