The France is giving up organizing the 2025 Rugby League World Cup because of a problem of "financial viability", announced Monday the organizing committee of the competition.
"The board has decided not to organise this international competition, which the International Rugby League had entrusted to the France," France 2025 said in a statement. "Despite all the work of the organizing committee, it could not be made possible to secure a deficit risk."
The France will not host the Rugby League World Cup in 2025.https://t.co/LLQhrH0oBi
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"The conditions of financial viability initially defined by the State to support the project, set as early as January 2022, were not fully met," said the organizers. It was to be, after 1954 and 1972, the third edition of the World Cup to be played only in France, which had also co-hosted the tournament in 2000 and 2013 with the United Kingdom and Ireland.
The 2025 World Cup was to bring together four competitions (women, men, wheelchairs and youth) simultaneously over five weeks in forty cities across the country. "This difficult decision is taken so as not to endanger the robustness of the models of major international sporting events that the France now wants to carry," the organizing committee said.
The France will host the 2023 Rugby World Cup from September 8 to October 28 before the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2024.
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