British & Irish Lions tour manager John Spencer says the tourists will right the wrongs of the 2005 crop who slumped to a 3-0 defeat against the All Blacks.The Lions last series win against New Zealand was in 1971 and Spencer was part of that victorious group. Since then, the Lions have been on four ill-fated tours against the All Blacks but Spencer feels the tourists are best-placed to end the drought.Back in 2005 Sir Clive Woodward took a large playing squad, something Gatland feels was the correct approach, but decided to split the group into two teams.They fell to a 3-0 series defeat which caused some to question the worth of the Lions. Following the 2005 tour, and 2001 before it, there was a perception that the Lions had a limited future, said Spencer.The tour had its difficulties in 2005. And so we have changed quite a lot of things.Players have gone back to sharing rooms and the coaches will coach the midweek as well as the Saturday team and not have separate coaching groups. 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Louis Blues teammates who would also be participating in the Olympics, Alex Pietrangelo felt right at home, no different in some ways to the travel experience of any old road trip – save for the length of the journey, that is.World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont hailed rugby sevens successful introduction to the Olympics as a potential game-changer for the sports global popularity.The games abbreviated version was a smash hit in Rio as Fiji won their first ever Olympic medal by claiming the mens title and Australia won the womens competition.Research for World Rugby, the games governing body, has revealed the first Olympic rugby tournament since 1924 attracted nearly 17 million new fans in six core markets.Speaking to the Press Association at World Rugbys annual conference in London, Beaumont said: The Olympic tournament was a phenomenal success and we are already seeing the results at grass-roots.The key now is to build on the increased interest in our sport and well be spending 20 percent more on developing the game in the next four-year cycle -- sevens will be a massive part of that.Sevens can be a great introduction to 15-a-side rugby, and fifteens can be a great way into sevens, but we know sevens is the ideal vehicle to grow the game.The former England captain said his next challenge will be to make sure rugby sevens maintains its Olympic status, as it was introduced -- along with golf -- on a two-Games basis in 2009.Beaumont met senior International Olympic Committee staff in Japan last month when he was visiting the hosts of the next Rugby World Cup in 2019 and the next Summer Olympics a year later.A decision on whether to add rugby sevens tto the core programme will be made by the IOC in Peru next September, with Beaumont confident that the IOC will approve the permanent addition of two 12-team tournaments for 2024 and beyond.ddddddddddddWe are not presumptuous about our place in the schedule at all but I think we delivered a great event in Rio, the 64-year-old Englishman said.Whenever I met an IOC member in a hotel restaurant or lift during the first week in Rio they would quickly look down at my accreditation to see who I was and usually say nothing. But after Fiji won, well, everybody wanted to congratulate me on the amazing tournament.World Rugbys Rio impact research was conducted by Nielsen Sports in Australia, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, and was based on online surveys before and after the Games.It found that Olympic status had grown the sports reach, particularly with women and the 18-24 age group. It also found that rugby outperformed other sports on the Olympic programme in terms of growth in interest after Rio 2016, with an average increase of 10 percent.In terms of the television, nearly four in 10 18-24s in the UK watched as Great Britains men claimed a silver medal and the women lost the bronze medal match in Rio, while World Rugbys social media fan-base grew by 670,000 during 2016. ' ' '