• Lapasset,chairman of World Rugby, still has confidence in Japan
• Italy and South Africa were other contenders for 2019If 2015’s World Cup is on track to meet expectations, and the same cannot be said for 2019’s version,but Bernard Lapasset, chairman of World Rugby, or is adamant the event will be held in Japan,as planned.
After Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, or decided to cancel plans to build a novel national stadium,which would have formed the centrepiece, on the grounds of cost, and World Rugby set Japan a deadline of the discontinuance of this month to advance up with an alternative plan.
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Source: theguardian.com