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[QUOTE="Foordy, post: 3511088, member: 1769"] France has withdrawn as the hosts of the 2025 Rugby League World Cup, over concerns for the financial viability of the tournament. [B]Organising committee said:[/B] “This difficult decision is taken so as not to endanger the robustness of the models of major international sporting events that France wants to have from now on,” [B]IRL said:[/B] “The France 2025 board of directors felt they had no choice after the French government demanded a guarantee for the risk of loss for the event, considering that the conditions initially set to secure the economic viability of the event were not met, after additional time and funding provided to the committee by the French Government to that end,” the IRL said. IRL chairman Troy Grant added: “The factors that impacted on the bid team’s ability to complete the early structure of the tournament, such as the economic crisis and, in particular, inflationary pressure on host town council budgets, undermined their ability to secure adequate securities for the event to satisfy the government’s strict conditional benchmarks, put forward from the beginning of the process, for the tournament to proceed. “Despite our focus having been on France, we will now accelerate our consideration of other contingency options.” [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/rugby-league-world-cup-in-dissaray-as-host-country-makes-shock-call/news-story/091048f172b5d24154f765bc8b00af27[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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