Rugby stars ready to tackle conflict

A GEORGIAN rugby player who was in the national squad that came agonisingly close to shocking Ireland at last year’s Rugby World Cup said he is ready to go home and fight for his country if needs be.

Davit Kinchagishvili, a front rower for Brive in the French Top 14, is one of a hundred Georgian rugby players in France who are ready to swap their combat skills on the field for real-life warfare.

The armed conflict between Georgia and Russia has touched the lives of the nations’s rugby players, many of whom play professionally in France.