Rugby: Organizers struggling to select qualified Cup training bases

The organizers of the next Rugby World Cup, Japan Rugby 2019, will not announce their candidates to host official training bases for the tournament as scheduled, organizing committee CEO Akira Shimazu indicated Tuesday.Under the original schedule, organizers were supposed to announce the qualified candidates from 76 applicants this past summer, with the teams then choosing their training bases this autumn following inspections of the various candidates.But the inability to find enough suitable candidates has led the organizers to scrap that plan. No public announcement will now be made unti…READ FULL ARTICLE