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Rugby World Cup comes to Chamonix

featured in News & reviews Author Helen McGrory, Chamonix Reporter Updated

20 nations, 48 matches, 12 stadiums and more than 2.5 million spectators; 2007 is the year that the Rugby World Cup comes to France. Kicking off on 7th September, the 20 teams will battle it out for a place in the final at the Stade de France in Paris on 20th October, where the winning team will hold aloft the famous Webb-Ellis trophy.

As part of the build up to the world cup, the trophy has already completed a tour of France by train, last summer. On the 12th/13th June however, it will be taken to new heights when 5 teams of rugger boys will hoist the trophy to the top of Mont Blanc draped in the flags of all 20 nations. The teams, comprising players, referees and trainers, will head to the Refuge des Cosmiques on the 12th and then will make their ascent on the 13th, weather permitting. Climbing via the Tacul, Mont Maudit and the col de la Brenva, they will return to the place du triangle de l'Amitié (Tourist Office Square) at around 4.30pm where more than 700 young rugby players from schools across the Haute-Savoie will be there to greet them.

Source: Le Dauphiné