Michele Kang sees "incredible potential" in women’s rugby.
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00:00That was the most expensive game I've ever attended.
00:04So I was at the Olympic, of course, for the women's soccer team and so forth,
00:09and I was invited to the rugby game.
00:11I've seen rugby games, but not women's, especially not the rugby sevens.
00:15And when I walked into the stadium, I was just really, really shocked that it was sold out.
00:21And actually, quite frankly, women's football was not sold.
00:24It was near sold out, but it wasn't sold out.
00:26The rugby was sold out.
00:27It was something like $70,000.
00:29And I sat next to the U.S. rugby chairman and so forth.
00:33I started chatting.
00:34And actually, what I found out was that rugby right now, women's rugby in the U.S.
00:40is about the same place where women's soccer was about, I would say, four or five years ago.
00:45And by looking at just the stadium, the fans and the excitement, just very, very similar.
00:53They're just three, four years behind us.
00:56And I think there's an incredible potential.
00:58So I just wanted to do just a little to nudge to move to that direction.
01:02So I did say it was the conditional that they have to win the gold medal in L.A.
01:08And when they do, I want one too.