Rugby World Cup Blog | Jonah Lomu | 2007

  My return trip back from Edinburgh was a lengthy one involving overbooked and late-running flights, which meant I was lucky to make it back to Paris at all. I was pleased to be back with another win for the All Blacks against Scotland on Sunday.Yesterday I spent most of...More

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I had the day in Edinburgh today. We went out walking in the morning through the town to get a feel of the place. There were so many New Zealanders in town I could have been back at home. There was a great buzz about the city, the Scots in...More

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  Today was always going to be a great day for rugby, with a fantastic line-up of games. Before watching the match I believed South Africa would beat Tonga comfortably, but the Islanders would put up a good fight and it would be one of the most physical encounters in...More

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This morning started like a lot of my days with some media interviews, speaking with the Sunday Times in Scotland and then an interview with a television channel at Le Crillon before heading off to open an event at the Champ-De-Mars. I was invited by EDF to open Les Recontres...More

After the game on Tuesday I was looking forward to watching a good match last night.  For me there was personal interest in this one.  Firstly there were a number of guys in the Welsh side that I played with during my time with the Cardiff Blues.  I played for...More

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Today was a work day for me.  I travelled on the TGV from Paris to the east of France to visit the adidas offices in Strasbourg.  Strasbourg was where the adidas international business started from many years ago.  It was a day of meetings, media interviews and signings and of...More

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  I want to talk a bit today about two of the teams that are considered to be the minnows of the tournament. It disheartens me that these teams appear not to be shown the respect for making it to this World Cup. They have to qualify to be here...More

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On Sunday a friend of mine took me to a local French market in the 17th arrondissement in the north-west of Paris - great produce and real characters selling their wares. I was given lots of things to try including some locally made Foie Grais which is one of my favourite...More

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Another beautiful day in Paris, I had some work on in the morning and was running late to get back to the hotel to watch the All Blacks so my friend took us into a bar called American Dream that was full of rugby fans watching the game, it was...More

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It was a great day in Paris yesterday. The sun was out and the weather really warm. My wife and I had some work with EDF in the morning then took a walk from our hotel up the Champs Elysee to the Adidas store. We ran into huge numbers of...More

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