While Canada sits out the men's Rugby World Cup for the first time, former captain Gareth Rees maintains his perfect attendance record at the tournament.
Rees became the first man to play in four World Cups when, despite a heavily strapped right thigh, he led Canada out against host France in 1999 in Beziers.
The 20-team tournament starts with a bang Friday in Paris with third-ranked France facing No. 4 New Zealand, a three-time World Cup winner. "It's been a great way of finding out where we stand and giving us a focus," Rees, whose day job is director of strategic relations at Rugby Canada, said from France.
"That was a decade in the making," Rees explained."That was a decade of sitting on planes to New Zealand and getting well beaten by New Zealand provinces and learning our lesson and having touring teams come in." The top five ranked teams — Ireland, South Africa, France, New Zealand and Scotland — are bunched on one side of the bracket with Ireland, South Africa and Scotland fighting it out in Pool B. Only the top two from each of the four pools move on to the quarterfinals.
"I think we're going to have some big results, unfortunately," he said."I've got Romania in the first game and it's a massive ask of them."
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