Rugby striptease video hits the web

The Austrian national rugby team tried to get over their 48-0 defeat by Lithuania by staging a mass striptease in the capital Vilnius late on Saturday, only to find they had been caught on video and put on the Internet.

The video, put out by a blogger on social community website Virb  and then taken up by the Lithuanian news portal Delfi, showed a group of 20 men singing and stripping off their clothes on a street in central Vilnius, while people in a nearby bar clapped and cheered.

'Yes, these were the men we played against on Saturday... I guess the defeat could have prompted them to do that,' said Lithuanian rugby federation President Aleksandras Makarenka.

Delfi quoted the Vilnius police chief as saying stripping in public could be considered an act of hooliganism, but by then the Austrian team had gone home.