“We always had it in our history, in our DNA, to fight,” Levan Maisashvili, head coach of Georgia’s rugby union team, says as he reflects on the proud, defiant nature of his small countr ...

All the highlights from the Wallabies' final pool match against Georgia. Rugby is an important part of life in Georgia and their national team the Lelos, have overcome massive odds to be where ...

July 19 (Reuters) - Emboldened Georgia made the rugby world sit up and take notice by beating Eddie Jones's Japan in Saitama last week and now hope to take one of their biggest scalps when they ...

Georgians see Lelo as a wild cousin of rugby, a game that has surged in popularity over the last few decades. Fittingly nicknamed the Lelos, Georgia's national rugby team has dominated the second ...

MONS, Belgium — Georgia and Romania qualified for the 2027 Rugby World Cup after reaching the Rugby Europe Championship semifinals on Saturday. Georgia's Lelos beat the Netherlands 40-7 in ...

Photo: AFP Known as lelo burti, the game was first played in Shukhuti in western Georgia more than 150 years ago to commemorate a historic military victory against Ottoman Turkish invaders. Georgians ...

TBILISI, Georgia — Georgia winger Akaki Tabutsadze became the seventh man in international rugby history to score 50 tries after bagging three in the Rugby Europe Championship final on Sunday.