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Rugby union at the Summer Olympics has been a men's medal sport at the modern Summer Olympic Games, being played at four of the first seven competitions. The sport debuted at the 1900 Paris games. It subsequently featured at the London games in 1908, the Antwerp games in 1920 and the Paris games in 1924. Shortly after the 1924 games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) canceled rugby union as an Olympic sport. There have been numerous attempts to bring the sport back to the Olympic program. The most recent have been for the inclusion of the sevens version of the sport, which is played at similar competitions such as the Commonwealth Games. The IOC voted at its session in Copenhagen in October 2009 to include sevens for the 2016 Summer Olympics. (More...)

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