once he did, nigel owens never looked back until just before kick-off in rugby's world cup final. >> nice to stand there before the anthems on saturday, standing between the two best teams in the world cup among some of the greatest players in the world to reflect for a minute what helped you get there. i lost my mum about six years ago and when the anthem is being played. i was looking up saturday a couple seconds and could picture her face looking down. >> what did your dad think of your performance? >> he was very happy i run with the club and the first thing he said was how the hell did you miss that forward passes? >> thanks, dad. >> although there are few openly gay athletes in many global sports, owens believe his experience shows that rugby has proved it's a safe environment for players and officials to come out. >> the biggest challenge you ever come across in your life, the biggest challenge i came across in my life was accepting who i was. that's one of the reasons why a lot of people are not out in sport yet. nobody can tell you what to do. you have to decide first of all