At a series of festival events in Hong Kong the official mascot of the Lions, Bill, has been distributing promotional Rhino Lions balls to mini rugby players to promote the historic game next June 1st with the Barbarians.
Tickets for the game went on sale today. Rhino is Official Supplier not only of training equipment to the 2013 British & Irish Lions but also Official Ball supplier and the game on June 1st next year will be played with the Rhino Vortex Elite rugby ball which has been used in the RaboDirect PRO12 for the last two seasons and was recently a finalist in the Technical Innovation category at the Rugby Expo Awards at Twickenham.
