We want Rugby at the Olympic Games:

Rugby Union is the purest form of team athletic competition in the world!

It is a great sport played around the world. It deserves to be part of the Olympic games.

It is the second most participated sport in the world next to soccer. It is extremely fast paced and exciting. The 7's format allows for an in depth competition to be completed in a reasonable length of time.

Rugby is not only a dynamic and enteraining sport. Even at the highest professional level, it maintains an ethos of sportsmanship and respect - towards both the opposition and the referees - that is not seen in other team sports. The values that rugby teaches have been instrumental in bringing nations together, where other sports have been slower or even today has failed. Most notabe are the inclusion of black players and supporters in South Africa and the fact that the Irish team has long been selected from and supported by both the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland. The game of rugby is very much in line with the Olympic ethos.

Rugby is the purest team sport combined with the highest level of fitness, strength & skill. There is no better spectator sport in the world. . . Who wants to watch a 90-minute soccer match that often results in a scoreless tie, where the objective seems to be to draw an arbitrary foul call in the box for an opportunity to score on a penalty kick? Rugby is real & soccer is becoming like professional wrestling. Unfortunately basketball is becoming almost as bad.

It is truely an international sport.

Best team sport ever.

Rugby is the third most popular spectator sport in the world, the olympics is the perfect showcase for one of the remaining truely amateur sports

It's about time Rugby was recognized by the 5 rings!

Rugby is a fast paced game with lots of team work and has lots of socializing. All around competitive sport with fun attached.

It's a great sport that is fast and enteetaining

It applies great athletisim with techniques. Fittness,speed,strength and mental aquity.

Just look at the commercial appeal of the Rugby World Cup. $$$

Because its the greatest game in the world!

Rugby is the ultimate test of manhood.

It's not a sport it's a bloody religion!

It embodies the essence of what sports is all about..passion, teamwork and comraderie.

Get the 7's into the Olympics......the commonwealth games were attended by over 100,000 folks. The recent World 7's had the same attendance and several upsets were recorded which is half of the fun.

It will bring more attention to one of the world's fast growing sports. Plus the game has changed my attitude and most importantly my life, and it could do the same for so many others.

Fast, fun, perfect spectator sport.

Rugby, especially sevens, is the most exciting game to watch. On and off the field it builds character, respect, and comraderie.

Because its gods own game

It is a great sport and it is growing in our area

Greatest sport in the world

Rugby still promotes everything that the Olympic movement is passionate about - friendship, loyalty, fun, excellence, and inclusion...

World cup rugby is the 3rd largest sporting event in the world. C'mon, its a no brainer!

Sevens is a great spectator sport!! It is very exciting due to the fast pace of the games, and the caliber of athletes that play the game.

My kids play and LOVE it. What a beautiful game. People need to know more about this amazing and dignified game. Put it into the olympics!

Its the best sport to watch

internationally popular sport. extremely entertaining!!!!

It was once in the olympics, why shouldn't it be again... it is growing with more and more people hearing about it, and playing it.

Most exciting sport too watch is rugby.

Because its the most dynamic and thrilling sport in the world

It's better than tae Kwon Do

It is an friendly and competitive international sport. I can't see any reason why Rugby should not be an Olympic sport.

Rugby requires more than a normal person can understand as far as talent and desire...rugby is beautiful

It's a fast-paced sport every country can compete in without one nation dominating all the time. It is a sport where the saying "Anything can happen" actually applies. It allows smaller nations that normally don't have a chance in most other sports to actually have a fighting chance. Most importantly, it's entertaining and the rules are easy to pick up for first-time viewers.

To replace synchronized swimming

2nd largest sport in the world and it's not in there why? Trampoline? Very popular choice there.

Rugby is a sport of intense caliber. Not only is it challenging physically, but mentally and emotionally as well. It's also a sport where women and men can play to very high levels that are exciting for people to watch. I love rugby with all my heart and it deserves so much recognition that it currently doesn't get.

Greatest game played

Rugby should be olympic because it is a sport with not only brute force like most people think it is. Rugby is endurance of strength AND mentality. Having rugby in the olympics will also broaden the fan base. Americans are having a hard time accepting rugby because of football. Most have never even seen a game. They just a predetermined sense of what it is. Rugby becoming olympic would be phenomenal!

Rugby was played in the first Olympics and should be played in every Olympics

It's the best sport in the world

Because it is a world played sport loved by many.

i am 18 years old with a big future in rugby, and playing internationally for my country would be a big honor but getting to walk in the olympics for my country would also be a big honor

rugby should be olympic because it is an intense game of non stop action. and my friend once told me that rugby is the game you play in heaven.

It is by far the most entertaining sport in the world, both to play and to watch. I feel I can say this because I have played just about every sport there is.

its the best sport ever and should be better known!

its the sport they play in heaven!

Best sport ever

Rugby is the most action packed sport and is the most exciting to watch!