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
Richmond Rugby Football Club Geraldine Griffiths also got her start with the club. As well the club has provided the Canadian Maccabiah Games rugby team with five players for the 2009 and 2013 competitions. Other notable former players include: Richmond Rugby Football Club The Richmond Rugby Football Club (usually shortened to RRFC) is an amateur rugby union team based in Richmond, British Columbia which competes in the British Columbia Rugby Union. The club has represented the city since 1957, and has been a successful mid-sized club for the past decade, drawing players from the city itself as well as outlying areas. The Richmond R.F.C.