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Over the summer, Ilona helped lead Team USA to their first rugby medal in 100 years. The ladies used a "high woman philosophy ...
Girls who play rugby in Utah have a new hero, their coaches say: Ilona Maher, the star of the U.S. women's rugby sevens team, who shows the girls that any body type can be beautiful.
Olympic rugby player Ilona Maher is the star of the September 2024 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit digital edition. Sports Illustrated/Ben Watts. She’s winning the gold medal for this cover.
A 15-year-old rugby player died less than a day after grazing his shin during a match, a judicial hearing has revealed. Samuel Staple, of Tupholme, a village in Lincolnshire, ...
More than 520 additional former rugby players have joined a concussion lawsuit against the sport's authorities, according to the law firm bringing the case.
Cam Roigard speaks about returning to rugby and the All Blacks squad following his knee injury six months ago. Video / Alyse Wright It took Japan 20 years to go from suffering a humiliating 145-17 ...
Alix Popham played in two rugby World Cups and won a Six Nations Grand Slam before retiring in 2011 as a professional in the rough-and-tumble game. By 2020, he had already been diagnosed with ...
Moerat said this tribute was “beautiful” and said Willemse was “a true inspiration to us all”. “First of all, he is a very dear friend to me and many of the other players,” Moerat said.
Rugby debuted as an Olympic sport at the 1900 Paris Olympics, but was dropped as an Olympic sport after the 1924 Paris Olympic games. In 2016 at the Rio de Janeiro Games, a variation of the sport ...
PARIS (AP) — Ilona Maher, America’s rugby-playing social media sweetheart, walked onto the terrace of Team USA House carrying a sandwich, the United States’ first ever rugby sevens Olympic ...
A teenage rugby player had his arm ripped away from his body by a huge tackle during a game. University of Keele student Spencer Wadsworth says he doesn't remember the life-changing incident that ...
Rugby players who had been concussed in their career also had lower levels of a so-called retinoid transport protein called RBP-4, which plays a role in the development and functioning of the brain.