{"id":130083,"date":"2026-10-12T09:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T07:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/blog\/2026\/10\/12\/international-flag-rugby-tournament-in-geneva-thrills\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T09:50:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T07:50:38","slug":"international-flag-rugby-tournament-in-geneva-thrills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/blog\/2026\/10\/12\/international-flag-rugby-tournament-in-geneva-thrills\/","title":{"rendered":"International Flag Rugby Tournament in Geneva Thrills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In September, the third edition of the Geneva Flag Rugby Tournament took place in Geneva at the Centre sportif des Cherpines in Plan-les-Ouates. Six teams from four nations (Switzerland, France, Romania, and a US team from Special Olympics Georgia) provided exciting matches on and off the field.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sport played was Flag Rugby, a non-contact rugby variant where people with and without intellectual disabilities compete together in a team.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tournament was organized by the Sporting Club of the Fondation Trajets in collaboration with the Rugby Club Gen\u00e8ve Plan-les-Ouates. For the first time, the event was also officially supported by Special Olympics Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to exciting competitions, the focus was on togetherness, new friendships, and the joy of sport. The third edition impressively demonstrated how sport overcomes barriers and makes inclusion tangible.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trajets.org\/post\/3%C3%A8me-geneva-s-flag-rugby-tournament-deux-jours-de-sport-de-rencontres-et-d-inclusion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">For the detailed review with pictures and videos on the Fondation Trajets website<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September, the third edition of the Geneva Flag Rugby Tournament took place in Geneva at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":130168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130085,"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130083\/revisions\/130085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}