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Wake Up To Money

Business of Sport: Rugby World Cup

Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1775 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Sean Farrington looks at the money behind the Rugby World Cup in Japan including how can smaller countries break into the top tier of the game.

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0:36.9

Wake up to Money, Business of Sports with Sean Farrington.

0:40.8

Hello, rugby union breaks into the land of the rising sun,

0:44.6

but is the money being spent in the right places?

0:47.9

We'll be over here for five weeks, and we would have spent getting here around £15,000.

0:53.7

We think it's probably about £2, half thousand pounds, including hotels, three weeks.

0:58.6

It's a bit of cash being spent nearly half a million people traveling to the Rugby World Cup in Japan.

1:03.3

Could bring in around one and a half billion pounds for the Japanese economy.

1:07.4

First time Asia has ever hosted the tournament, but can its impact help grow the game around the globe?

1:13.6

We're going to hear from fans, former World Cup players, those helping to run the game both internationally and at club level.

1:19.6

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