Wheelchairs are adapted because crashes can be violent and the brutal falls in Scotland, a country that is participating in the World Cup in France, one of the great rugby nations, also in its paralympic version.
It is a basketball pitch and with five-man teams, wheelchair rugby is becoming popular, both in Scotland and around the world. There are 25 sections participating in cinternational competitionswith an objective similar to that of traditional rugby, which is to cross the opponent’s line with the oval ball.
Since 2015, the Celtic Cup, an international wheelchair rugby tournament between Scotland, Ireland and Wales, continues to develop and grow.
By 2024, this sport will have a moment of great media exposure due to the paralympic games, where it has been present since Sydney-2000.
The Scottish hopes to achieve a great international title are entered into that Paralympic event, where their players are potentially selectable to be part, together with English and Welsh, of a good team from Great Britain. England is the now world champion in wheelchair rugby.
Callum Young is one of the Scottish stars of the sport and strongly aspires to form part of the list for Paris 2024. He was also named the best Scottish player in 2022 and was called up by Team GB for the European Championship in May last year, but he then declined that call.
A few weeks before the 2023 Men’s Rugby World Cup in France, AFP has asked 20 young photographers, representative of each of the qualified countries, to show an aspect of local rugby culture, with help from Canon. From Namibia to Fiji, passing through Georgia or Chile, these reports are to illustrate the values of this sport.
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2023-08-12 18:15:41
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