2000s (decade) organized in France. Bloodgate is the nickname for a rugby union scandal involving the English team Harlequins in their Heineken Cup match against the Irish side Leinster on 12 April 2009. It was so called because of the use of fake blood capsules, and has been seen by some as one of the biggest scandals in rugby since professionalisation in the mid-1990s, indeed even as an argument against the professional ethos. The name is a pun on Watergate. The New York Yankees won the first Major League Baseball World Series of the decade in 2000, as well as the last
Stade Lausanne Rugby Club Stade Lausanne Rugby Club Stade Lausanne Rugby Club is an amateur Swiss rugby union club from Lausanne, the Olympic Capital. The club plays in the Swiss first division - LNA - and are former Swiss Cup champions. Having been one of the eight original clubs to play in the inaugural Swiss Championship when the Switzerland Rugby Union was formed in 1969, Stade Lausanne has been one of the most successful clubs in the country. With six National League A (NLA) and six Swiss Cup titles including 2009 and 2010 Stade Lausanne sits third - behind Hermance RRC and Rugby Club