World Rugby Issues Valuable Rio 16 Rugby Resources For Media

Rugby will return to the Olympic Games stage for the first time in 92 years when the world’s top men’s and women’s rugby sevens teams compete at Rio 2016, and World Rugby is providing its Unions and Regional Associations with a suite of materials to use and share ahead of Rugby’s participation on sport’s biggest stage.

- Video: Rights-free hi-res non-Olympic sevens packages

- Editorial and features: Multi-lingual daily previews and reviews

- Live blogs and social content: Engage with #Rugby fans around the world

- Statistical information: Squad information, commentary notes and head to heads

- Images: Rights-free photography for non-commercial editorial use

- Education: This is Rugby Sevens deck explaining all you need to know about Rugby at Rio

Video for online use
World Rugby is providing the following Rugby Sevens content to maximise awareness and excitement ahead of the Games. Feel free to use this FREE and HI-RES video content on broadcast and smaller digital versions can be made available.

1. ‘7 in 60’ video packages - star players answer quick fire questions (60 seconds)

2. ‘Ones to watch’ – fast paced edits of star players in action (40 seconds)

3. ‘Sevens uncovered’ – longer form features with key players (3-7 minutes)

4. Player try compilations – (60 seconds)
5. The Olympic Qualification story – animation & graphics (60 seconds)

These packages will be displayed on the Ghana Rugby Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/Rugbygh/

Statistical, team and player information
World Rugby will be making the following information available via www.worldrugby.org/Olympics

- Condensed squads with player rugby sevens career information, men’s and women’s

- Commentary notes, all 12 women’s teams
- Commentary notes, all 12 men’s teams
- Pool profiles & historical head to heads
- Rugby Sevens statistics sheets including top scorers all time, top scorers 2015-16 season

Information Deck: This is Rugby Sevens
As a new sport in an Olympic context, rugby sevens may not be familiar to some sports media. World Rugby has produced the ‘This is Rugby Sevens’ educational deck in four languages. This is also available via the Ghana Rugby Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/Rugbygh/

Social Media
As per recent IOC guidelines, World Rugby encourages all to mention the hashtag #Rugby alongside #Olympics or #Rio2016 during the Games, and interact and engage with its channels.

In the build-up to the Games World Rugby would also encourage the media to include the following ticketing link in any sevens posts rug.by/bWIHef and #Rugby. The IOC are also encouraging us to use #YOGtoRio if there’s anything of interest around any Youth Olympic Games players to demonstrate the Olympic pathway.

During the Olympic Games, World Rugby will be providing comprehensive coverage of Rugby’s return to the Games on all of its official social media channels, including live blog, latest results, photos, illustrations and infographics, all in English, French, Spanish and Japanese across:

- Facebook (/worldrugby7s)
- Twitter (@worldrugby7s)
- Instagram (World Rugby)
- Vine (World Rugby)
- YouTube (World Rugby)
- Snapchat (@rugbyworldcup)
IOC guidelines for social media
Press attaches and member unions should familiarise themselves with the following IOC guidelines covering use of IOC properties, social and digital media and news access.

https://www.olympic.org/documents/games-rio-2016-olympic-games

Digital platforms
Complementing the Olympic coverage on www.olympic.org and www.Rio2016.com, World Rugby’s own website will feature all the latest rugby-specific news and views at http://www.worldrugby.org/olympics and aggregate the best social and visual content via a live blog available in multiple languages on all six match days.

The website will also house all the .pdfs and commentary notes cited above within the Media sections of each tournament website: http://www.worldrugby.org/olympics/men/media and http://www.worldrugby.org/olympics/women/media

All squads are currently listed on the website team pages and in news articles as they are declared - a VERY valuable resource for commentators and producers! MEN - http:/www.worldrugby.org/olympics/men/teams and WOMEN - http://www.worldrugby.org/tournament/1671/teams

Still images
Getty Images is World Rugby’s official photographic agency at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and will be covering every session from the men’s and women’s competitions. The images can be accessed via the World Rugby Media Manager page on gettyimages.com.

Media Q&A
World Rugby has also compiled an Q&A for media FAQs regarding rugby in the Olympics, which will be available in the next seven days. This will include information on the benefits of inclusion, the anti-doping programme and the rugby legacy programme in Rio.

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