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Rugby union has its foot back in the door to be readmitted to the Olympic Games following the strangest of moves overnight.
Rugby Union has moved a step closer to the Olympic Games with the announcement today it has been included in the 2011 Pan America Games in Guadalajara, Mexico
It prompted International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge, who played rugby for Belgium, saying the code's addition opens the doors for the sport in a future Olympics.
"It's closer than ever," he told Associated Press.
The International Rugby Board had their hopes of rugby sevens being included in the 2012 London Olympics dashed two years ago.
Rugby, last played at the Olympics in 1924, faces difficulty in being readmitted as the IOC is looking to downsize the number of team sports after cutting baseball and softball.
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