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A huge breakthrough for local rugby
At a recent meeting between the Qatar Rugby Federation, Rugby World Cup - Dublin and Asian Rugby Football Union (ARFU), it has been decided that the Singer Sri Lankan Airlines Sevens - 2005 will serve as a Qualifier for the 2006 Asian Games in Qatar. The 7th Singer SriLankan Airlines Sevens will be the decider to select eight teams which will contest for the Asian Games - 2006. This will be the 3rd time that Rugby has featured in the Asian Games. Under the rules of the Asian Games Rugby will have its permanency in the future. This is a huge breakthrough for Rugby which is trying to become an Olympic Sport.

This is a great recognition for the Singer Sri Lankan Airlines Sevens as part of the IRB programme. The participating teams at this event on the 9, 10 & 11 September 2005 in Kandy are as follows, Sri Lanka, Arabian Gulf, China, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, Guam, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Already Kazakhstan, Thailand, Korea, Chinese Taipei have confirmed their participation.Twelve top school teams will also participate at this years Singer Sri Lankan 7s. which will run concurrently to the International event.

The following teams have confirmed their participation Isipatana, Wesley, St. Peters, St. Anthony's, St. Sylvester's, Vidyartha, Zahira and Science College.Six International panel Referees along with a Referee Manager and two Assessors, top local referees will do the honours as judges for this tournament.Singer Sri Lanka Ltd & Sri Lankan Airlines Ltd has come forward again to sponsor this event for the 7th consecutive year. -

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