Welcome to the top women's rugby news in under 60 seconds for Mar 7-13. The qualification pathways for July’s Commonwealth Games and September’s Rugby World Cup 7s have been confirmed. We also learned more about Russia’s suspension including their removal from the remaining HSBC Sevens Series stops and from Rugby World Cup 7s qualification.
In more XVs news, Sweden took home the Rugby Europe Trophy, Wales led the USA Selects early in their exhibition match but the Eagles flew back to win 31-23, and Spain is in turmoil after key coaching and administrative staff leave.
In more 7s news, the Black Ferns won Fiji's Super 7s Series, Australia swept USA in four exhibition matches, South Africa will join Toulouse 7s as an invitational team and Rugby Americas North announced the tournament format and teams for RAN 7s which also serves as a qualifier for the Commonwealth Games and Rugby World Cup 7s later this year.
We close out the week with all the domestic XVs standings, 5 articles in "Other News", 22 features and 14 media.
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tl;dr: Women's Rugby in 60 secs for Mar 7-13 sees Russia removed from the HSBC Sevens Series and the qualification pathway for the Rugby World Cup 2022 and Sweden captured the 2022 Rugby Europe Trophy.
