1. 42617

      Wales

      Ralph Herdman | Wales | Neath

      My team: Ospreys,Wales
      Because rugby is a team game and a great sport plus very entertaining,it would be perfect for the Olympic Games.
    2. 42581

      Wales

      heather poulton | Wales | tonypandy

      My team: ospreys
      we need a more exiting game than football or tennis. i think rugby would be an asset to the games.
    3. 42580

      Wales

      Alison Jones | Wales | Portsmouth

      Rugby is a truely global sport and a good way of fillling the stadium before the athletics start
    4. 42561

      Wales

      haydn davey | Wales | cardiff

      My team: cardiff blues
      its a man game
    5. 42533

      Wales

      Clive Lamb | Wales | Pontypool

      My team: Pontypool
    6. 42471

      Wales

      Andrew Millwater | Wales | Rhondda

      My team: Ospreys
      Best Team Game there is.
    7. 42451

      Wales

      Richard Hosgood | Wales

    8. 42369

      Wales

      Adrian Brain | Wales | Swansea

      My team: All Blacks
      Rugby is a truely worldwide sport. More importantly its principles are totally aligned with those of the Olympics,good sportsmanship, honour. and respect for your competitor
    9. 42293

      Wales

      Carl Forrest | Wales | Neath

      My team: Briton Ferry
      Because it is highly entaining competitve sport.
    10. 42287

      Wales

      muff roberts | Wales | laugharne town

      My team: laugharne
    11. 42272

      Wales

      Anthony Derrick | Wales

    12. 42236

      Wales

      DAWSON JONES | Wales

      My team: Pontypool
      Greatest game in the world says it all!!!
    13. 42223

      Wales

      Nigel Rowe | Wales | London

      My team: London Welsh
      Rugby is a truly international game and the 7 a side version is played by all ages and both gendas and is one of the greatest spectator sports in the world.
    14. 42213

      Wales

      Simon Enoch | Wales | Cardiff

      My team: Wales
      The best team sport in the world which embodies the Olympic spirit
    15. 42178

      Wales

      Jason Paul Evans | Wales

    16. 42177

      Wales

      Alyson Parry | Wales | Tonypandy

      My team: Ospreys
      Because it is too exciting not to to be.
    17. 42162

      Wales

      paul davies | Wales

    18. 42160

      Wales

      Nicholas Kinsella | Wales

    19. 42145

      Wales

      David Thomas | Wales | Swansea

      My team: Ospreys
      As it is a fantastic spectator sport played by both men and women and is helping to bring communities together across the world through the work of the irb and charities like sosirbkitaid
    20. 42141

      Wales

      Graham Price | Wales | Pontypool

      My team: Pontypool RFC
      Rugby satisfies all the core values of the Olympic Movement and can play an important role by helping to provide a safer, more prosperous, more peaceful world.
    21. 42077

      Wales

      john evans | Wales | swansea

      My team: swansea
    22. 42076

      Wales

      Jonathan Williams | Wales | Swansea

      My team: Ospreys
      Rugby should be an Olympic game as all the world play it, and it is an extremly good game to watch, fast and furious.
    23. 42053

      Wales

      Nigel willsdon | Wales | London

      My team: London
    24. 42052

      Wales

      Derek Greenway | Wales | Swansea

      My team: Ystradgynlais
      A fast growing spectator sport enjoyed by female and male supporters and players of all ages
    25. 42051

      Wales

      David Davies | Wales | Cardiff

      My team: Tondu RFC
    26. 42005

      Wales

      Charles Thompson | Wales | Cardiff

      My team: London Welsh
      Its the best sport around!
    27. 42002

      Wales

      Jason Forster | Wales | Newport

    28. 42001

      Wales

      Chris Wood | Wales | Newport

      My team: Newport Gwent Dragons
      Rugby is the greatest team sport in the world. It will enhance the Olympics with full stadiums and thrilling matches. It is almost an insult to the game that it must compete for a place against sports like squash, golf and softball. These have little to offer other than to those with a special interest. The colour of rugby teams and followers from countries like Fiji, Kenya, Argentina, New Zealand and Portugal would light up the Olympic Games. It would be a hammer blow to the game of rugby if it was refused a chance to once again appear on sport's biggest stage. It will also be a huge loss to the Olynpics if the world's biggest sporting event doesn't include the planet's greatest team sport.
    29. 41997

      Wales

      Grant Bignell | Wales | Neath

      My team: Ospreys
    30. 41933

      Wales

      Alun Gillard | Wales | Swansea

      My team: Seven Sisters
    31. 41898

      Wales

      John Taylor | Wales | London

      My team: London Welsh
      Rugby should be in the Olympics because it fits beautifully into the Olympic programme - it can take place in the main stadium in the first week - and the sport embodies the OLympic ideal better than any other team game in the world. JT
    32. 41895

      Wales

      Keith Stock | Wales

    33. 41874

      Wales

      Craig Davies | Wales | Swansea

      My team: Ospreys
      Better than most of the other sports currently in the olympics
    34. 41861

      Wales

      Gordon Lock | Wales | Cardiff

      My team: London Welsh
      It presents the image of a hard fought but clean encounter on the pitch, with a remarkably high degree of sportsmanship-the Olympic ideal in fact
    35. 41856

      Wales

      Richard Howell | Wales | Swansea

      My team: Wales
    36. 41831

      Wales

      Julian Davies | Wales | Cardiff

      My team: London Welsh
      It's time a true team sport like rugby was resurrected and USA, the current olympic champions, were given a chance to defend their title!
    37. 41827

      Wales

      Simon Griffiths | Wales | Swansea

      My team: Ospreys
      It is a global sport that involves everyone.
    38. 41812

      Wales

      Martin Workman | Wales | My city Cardiff

      My team: My rugby team Cardiff Blues
    39. 41805

      Wales

      Gwyn Edwards | Wales

    40. 41794

      Wales

      Robert Godfrey | Wales | Wrexham

      My team: Wrexham
    41. 41791

      Wales

      alan mccann | Wales | bridgend

      My team: bath
    42. 41789

      Wales

      Scott Miller | Wales | Swansea

      My team: Ospreys
      It's an exciting & entaining game to watch and participate in.
    43. 41788

      Wales

      Chris Davies | Wales

    44. 41783

      Wales

      Tony Curie | Wales | London

      My team: London Welsh
    45. 41782

      Wales

      jason larkman | Wales

      Global, inclusive, and respectful game
    46. 41776

      Wales

      Chris Davies | Wales

    47. 41765

      Wales

      Howell Rees | Wales | Swansea

      My team: Ospreys
      If footbal can be an Olympic sport containg proffesionals why cant rugby be. If not the 15 a side game then deffinately the 7s. Also it's the best game in the world
    48. 41748

      Wales

      huw lloyd | Wales | Narberth

      My team: Ospreys
      quick, exciting. Team sport. Fantastic fans.
    49. 41739

      Wales

      Ade Howell | Wales | Swansea

      My team: Seven Sisters
      Because it's better that football.
    50. 41738

      Wales

      Hywel Lloyd | Wales | Neath

      My team: Bryncoch RFC
    51. 41737

      Wales

      mike roberts | Wales | cardiff

      My team: wales
      worldwide sport - rugby 7s would sell out each day
    52. 41724

      Wales

      ken evans | Wales | neath

      My team: bryncoch
    53. 41717

      Wales

      Andrew Davies | Wales

    54. 41712

      Wales

      neil arthur | Wales

    55. 41709

      Wales

      William Jehu | Wales

    56. 41701

      Wales

      Melanie Jehu | Wales

    57. 41698

      Wales

      Bethan Jehu | Wales | Cardiff

      My team: Wales
      International Sport, more worldwide and universal than baseball
    58. 41678

      Wales

      Gavin Weaver | Wales

      My team: Ospreys
      One of the most exciting and entertaining games for all sports fans.
    59. 41664

      Wales

      gareth taylor | Wales | bridgend

      My team: bridgend ravens
      because its the greatest sport in the world..!!! play hard on the pitch, gentleman off it.>!! greatest set of fans in the world who all mix together and have great fun.!
    60. 41663

      Wales

      Simon Street | Wales

    61. 41648

      Wales

      marc jehu | Wales

      My team: Bridgend Sports
    62. 41645

      Wales

      Andrew John | Wales

    63. 41614

      Wales

      Richard Blake | Wales

    64. 41610

      Wales

      Aled Humphreys | Wales | Port Talbot

      My team: Taibach
      Aspirational target for young children playing rugby - being an Olympian!
    65. 41606

      Wales

      Lynn Deacon | Wales | Beaconsfield

      My team: London Wasps
    66. 41602

      Wales

      andy Thorburn | Wales | swansea

      My team: South Gower R.F.C and Ospreys
      Because Rugby is a true team sport requiring all the attributes needed to be a top class athelete. Strength, speed (of mind and body), agility and determination and courage. But above all these it teaches people self disipline, sportmanship, respect for the other team and especially the officials, in a world where standards are declining. It is still a beacon of what true sportsmanship should be.
    67. 41596

      Wales

      STEEL SWEATLAND | Wales | BOURNEMOUTH

      My team: WIMBORNE
      FAB SPORT
    68. 41594

      Wales

      Gareth Banfield | Wales | Swansea

      My team: Loughor rfc
      7's is a wonderfully exciting game and the comaraderie that happens after games is second to none
    69. 41570

      Wales

      TONY thomas | Wales | Swansea

      My team: Ospreys
      Rugby is genuinely a sport for all. The ethos of rugby is a template for life.
    70. 41493

      Wales

      Arwel Hughes | Wales | BRECON

      My team: OSPREYS
    71. 40968

      Wales

      Gareth Delve | Wales | Cardiff

      My team: Cardiff Blues
      Rugby is one of the greatest, most dramatic sports in the world, and sevens would be as exciting as anything currently seen at the Olympics. If Shane Williams is playing that is. . . .
    72. 40950

      Wales

      Keith Mellens | Wales | Caldicot

      My team: Caldicot RFC
      Rugby Union is a world wide sport which has more justification for inclusion than many other sports that are included already
    73. 40927

      Wales

      Lyn Evans | Wales | Cardiff

      My team: Cardiff Blues
    74. 40805

      Wales

      Mat richards | Wales

      It is a fast competitve team sport ideal for spectators to enjoythe excitment. It is skillfull and encourages lesser nations to compete as scen int he reason world 7 series with the like of Kenya doing well.
    75. 40545

      Wales

      David Davies | Wales

    76. 40376

      Wales

      Atyhur mubaiwa | Wales | swansea

      My team: Springboks
      its the greatest sport in the world bar none
    77. 40201

      Wales

      Shirley Wride | Wales | Bridgend. Wales

      My team: Ospreys
      Great competitive, lively spectator sport.
    78. 40074

      Wales

      jim hewitt | Wales | beziers

      My team: cardiff blues
    79. 40068

      Wales

      sharon townend | Wales | beziers

      My team: cardiff blues
    80. 40060

      Wales

      chip hewitt | Wales | beziers

      My team: cardiff blues
    81. 40045

      Wales

      adam dunt | Wales | London

      My team: Belsize Park
      Just because
    82. 40044

      Wales

      Nicola Fox | Wales

    83. 40031

      Wales

      hannah ferguson | Wales | London

      It's about time we watched a decent game
    84. 39999

      Wales

      Tim Burgum | Wales

    85. 39998

      Wales

      Anthony Mellalieu | Wales

      My team: Sale Sharks
    86. 39978

      Wales

      Will Gaunt | Wales

    87. 39876

      Wales

      Kit Davies | Wales | London

      My team: Llanelli Scarlets
      You only need 1 pitch and 2-3 days to stage a great sporting contest played in the best Olympic spirit. No brainer!
    88. 39833

      Wales

      John Thirsk | Wales | Caernarfon

      My team: Y Gogs
      A great sport
    89. 39766

      Wales

      josh tovey | Wales | carms

      My team: wales
      because its an amazing spor, its competitive and great fun to watch
    90. 39745

      Wales

      Joshua Gardner | Wales | Bristol

      My team: Ospreys
      Because it's a wonderful and exciting team game that's played in a format ideally suited to the Olympics. It's a true worldwide sport, particularly in 7s that deserves its place alongside football, basketball and other professional team sports at the summer games
    91. 39365

      Wales

      Owain Tudur | Wales | Cardiff

      My team: cardiff blues/Wales
    92. 39294

      Wales

      daniel fox | Wales

      it has a fine balance of fun, competition, culture and excitement
    93. 39230

      Wales

      Emily Rees | Wales

    94. 39227

      Wales

      steven thomas | Wales | ammanford

      My team: scarlets
      its the greatest game in the world, played by people whos spirit comes from the olympics. so why shouldnt they be part of the olympics
    95. 39192

      Wales

      hywel mills | Wales

    96. 39122

      Wales

      steven mcmorran | Wales | swansea

      My team: ospreys
      because even football is there
    97. 39114

      Wales

      Tom Marsden | Wales | Bath

      My team: Midsomer Norton
      Rugby 7s is the ultimate combination of physical fitness and game playing nous. The finest version of rugby for only the most talented.
    98. 39096

      Wales

      Brendan BUSH | Wales | Cardiff

      My team: St. Peter's RFC, Cardiff
      Because of how big a game it has become globally.
    99. 39031

      Wales

      Simon Howells | Wales

    100. 39007

      Wales

      Gem Jenkins | Wales | Cardiff

      My team: Cardiff Blues and Wales
      Rugby rules!

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