Georgia ready for rugby elite despite rare Portugal defeat

Georgian club side Black Lion have played in the last three editions of the Challenge Cup, while the national team has beaten three Tier I sides in the last four years. Georgia play in the second division Rugby Europe Championship, which they had won for eight years in a row until Sunday's surprise 19-17 defeat to Portugal in the final in Madrid. Their build-up to the match was marred by a doping scandal. World Rugby and the World Anti-Doping Agency revealed two days before the final that six...