It's a fairly short press release, addressed "to all rugby fans" and published on Friday to dispel the rumors that have ignited the oval planet since the day before.

No, the Six Nations Tournament is not going to make its revolution and integrate South Africa even if it means leaving Italy aside.

No country is mentioned in this text, but it comes to counter the information disseminated Thursday by the

Daily Mail

, according to which the Springboks, reigning world champions, would land in 2025 to the detriment of the weak Transalpine.

A message to all rugby fans from Six Nations Rugby 👇 pic.twitter.com/l88vAw7ZqB

— Guinness Six Nations (@SixNationsRugby) February 18, 2022

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The organizers of the major competition in the northern hemisphere associate the six federations currently involved (England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France and Italy), as well as the investment fund CVC Capital Partners (holder of 14.3% shares of the Tournament) in their communication.

Everyone “wants to confirm that they are not having any discussions or developing plans to add or replace” a nation currently in the Tournament.

Italians under pressure

The thinking heads of the venerable competition claim to put “all [their] energy” in “the ongoing strategic discussions concerning the international windows of July and November and the structure of the world season”.

In other words, it is a question of homogenizing the international calendar “to ensure a positive result for the development of the game”.

Beyond the Alps, we breathe a little, at least temporarily.

But the Azzurri would be well advised to win a match quickly, which they have not been able to do since 2015 in the Six Nations Tournament, under penalty of seeing the legitimacy trial open after each of their outings.

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