Here’s your women’s rugby news in under 60 seconds for Oct 18-24. Japan has qualified for the 2021 Rugby World Cup after a revision to the Asia pathway. USA announced their interest in hosting the 2027, 2029 or 2031 Rugby World Cup while England also expressed interest in hosting in 2025.

In more XVs news, France announced their squad ahead of Autumn Internationals and Ireland announced Greg McWilliams will take over for Adam Griggs after their fall matches. Speaking of the Irish, they also have given an update on their reviews into not qualifying for the 2021 Rugby World Cup and the changing room fiasco at the Interpros semi-finals a few weeks ago.

In 7s news, Australia has vacated both of their head coaching positions after disappointing performances at the Olympics and Canada has announced that Jack Hanratty is taking the reins of their program through the end of the year.

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tl;dr: Women's Rugby in 60 secs - Oct 18-24 sees Japan qualify for the Rugby World Cup 2021 after World Rugby confirmed a revision to the Asia qualification pathway, USA announced their interest in hosting the 2027, 2029 or 2031 Rugby World Cup while England has also expressed interest in 2025.