EXETER, England (AP) — Fiji lost a second front-rower to suspension at the Women’s Rugby World Cup after hooker Bitila Tawake was issued a four-game ban on Tuesday. Tawake received a 20-minute red ...

Lowering the legal tackle height in women's rugby is proving effective in reducing head contacts between players, a new study suggests. Changes to the tackle height law in women's community rugby in ...

Lowering the tackle height in men’s rugby has successfully reduced the rate of head collisions among players, a study suggests. Recent changes to the tackle height law for community rugby players in ...

Jan 27 (Reuters) - World Rugby intends to lower the legal tackling height at elite level worldwide in the coming years to reduce the risk of head injuries in the sport, the governing body's chief ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - In rugby, a tackle occurs when a player in possession of the ball is held and brought to the ground by one or more opposing players. The tackle is made below the sternum. The ...

Rugby can be one of the world’s most brutal sports, and a French rugby player found that out the hard way Saturday. In a Top 14 match, Bordeaux’s Maxime Lucu was kicking the ball away when he was ...

To (1) systematically review the literature to identify which match-related risk factors and mechanisms of rugby tackle events result in musculoskeletal injury, concussion, head injury assessments, ...

Objectives RugbySmart is a safe tackle technique education programme. Our objective was to identify whether the RugbySmart-recommended safe tackle technique was exhibited by club rugby players and ...

Rugby is known for its physicality and high risk of injury, but for 20-year-old Elena King, the pain she experienced in January was unlike anything she had ever faced. In a match in the Dutch ...

Lowering the legal tackle height in women's rugby is proving effective in reducing head contacts between players, a novel study suggests. The paper is published in the journal BMJ Open Sport & ...