Photographic proof Olympic rugby players love to tackle & manhandle each other

Men's rugby is without a doubt, one of the manliest sports imaginable.

As the 2024 Paris Olympics have gone on, we've watched many sports, but rugby has a special place in our hearts (and the rest of our bodies).

Rugby has two main variants, 15-player (rugby union) and 7-player (rugby sevens), both of which where players tackle, throw backward passes, and compete in scrums, trying to score tries for their team and win. Rugby union was first introduced in the Olympics during the 1900 Paris games, but was discontinued after 1924. Rugby sevens was then added to the Olympics during Rio 2016 and has been a part of the games ever since.

This year, the home team of France won the gold medal, with Fiji winning silver and South Africa winning bronze.

The sport has always left us with some pretty memorable images, and this year was no different.

We love the way the sport encourages men to chase each other down, wrap their arms around each other, embrace each other, take each other down, and all around just manhandle each other.

What more could we want from sports than that?

In honor of our love of the sport, here are some of our favorite pics from this year's Olympics of men manhandling each other on the rugby field!