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‘Journey starts in earnest’: DC begins countdown to US Rugby World Cups
Alan Gilpin, chief executive of World Rugby, arrived in Washington at a busy time in the US capital. “I don’t think we knew about the Nato summit when we organised this trip,” he says, from a couch on the top floor at the National Association of Realtors, …