The 2023 HSBC Canada Sevens girls's rugby event is leaving its longtime house of Langford, B.C., subsequent yr and shifting to Vancouver.
As an alternative of Starlight Stadium, the event can be held at B.C. Place in a mixed occasion with the boys's event from March 3 to five.
"It’s unlucky information, sure, that we’re dropping the Girls's Sevens right here, it’s a fairly large occasion for us," mentioned Langford Mayor Stew Younger. "It was thrilling."
The announcement Tuesday from Rugby Canada is one other blow to the group's relationship with Langford after an unbiased evaluate discovered issues with the group's chosen house.
"Langford is just not considered as a optimistic place to reside with it being framed as 'costly' and 'remoted,'" the evaluate discovered.
Nonetheless, Rugby Canada interim CEO Jamie Levchuk mentioned the group will proceed to name Langford house and proceed to host occasions at Starlight Stadium.
"We want to acknowledge the Metropolis of Langford for being such an unbelievable host of our HSBC Canada Girls’s Sevens since 2015," Levchuk mentioned in an announcement.
"Langford stays the house of Rugby Canada and we look ahead to persevering with internet hosting worldwide occasions at Starlight Stadium sooner or later."
He advised CTV Information that the choice was additionally made to offer the ladies's workforce an opportunity to compete in entrance of a bigger crowd in Vancouver, much like what's organized for Canada's males's workforce.
The interim CEO mentioned the group is "delighted" to be internet hosting a mixed males's and girls's occasion in 2023.
The transfer to mix the tournaments means the Vancouver occasion can be prolonged from its conventional two-day format to a three-day occasion.
The Metropolis of Langford is within the technique of increasing Starlight Stadium from its present capability of 4,800 to just about 10,000.
As soon as the growth is full, there's an opportunity the event may return to the island.
Rugby Canada says it's going to maintain a bidding course of to host the event for 2024 by means of 2027.
"For the time being, it is a resolution made for 2023," Levchuk advised CTV Information.
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