Six Nations awaits fate as tournament chiefs talk to French officials

Six Nations chiefs will meet officials from the French Ministry of Sport today to discuss the prospects of a tournament due to start early next month but in some doubt due to rising Covid-19 numbers and the suspension of the Champions and Challenge Cups.

French authorities made a formal request to the Ligue Nationale de Rugby yesterday, asking that the two rounds of European fixtures due to be played over the next two weekends be put on ice in order to help stem the highly-transmissable UK variant of the coronavirus.