Having worn the University of Bath’s famous Blue & Gold in netball and athletics, it is in rugby sevens that the multi-talented Deborah Fleming will be wearing the Red, White & Blue of Team GB at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Fleming played alongside future Team Bath Superleague players Mia Ritchie and Lois Rideout for
GREAT BRITAIN’S women’s rugby team are on a ‘smash and grab stay in Tokyo’. And a world cup winning star, England’s Alex Matthews, won’t even be staying long enough to celebrate her birthday which occurs mid-Games. Furthermore, GB women sevens they won’t take part in either the opening or closing ceremonies as they try to
At long last we know the make-up of the second version of a GB Sevens squad We can only imagine the extreme emotions the announcement made on the wider squad. Scott Forrest has been hampered again and again in coming to his final decision. Then he had to break the good and the bad news.
Two months before the Olympics are due, the GB Sevens teams finally got a tournament going. Now calls are growing louder for the games to be called off. A Three-Way Tournament The three-day tournament at St George’s Park Staffordshire, home of the FA, was a hastily arranged affair, designed primarily to offer Team GB the
GB Sevens will host ‘International Rugby 7s’ an Olympic preparation event later this month. The tournament will take place at St. George’s Park, the national football centre, between 15-17 May. On the men’s side, Great Britain will be joined by USA and Ireland, with the women’s teams of France and Ireland competing alongside Great Britain.
Made possible by an innovative commercial partnership with The National Lottery, GB7s will operate a banded pay structure which will give equal opportunities across both the men’s and women’s programmes to be financially rewarded at the same level. Women’s head coach Scott Forrest has selected a group of 19 players which features a number of
Russia were champions of the Rugby Europe Women’s Sevens – Grand Prix which took place with weekend in Malemort. France runners up and Great Britain Lions third. The pools, and all the results from the two day tournament are below. Great Britain fielded two sides: Lions (England) and Royals (Wales). The twelve teams were split into three
Australia win the first Women’s 7s Gold medal at the Rio Olympics, with New Zealand taking Silver and Canada Bronze. All the results from the three day competition are below. The pools and fixtures are all below, site will be updated with results. Rio 2016 – Women’s Sevens – Pools: Pool A – Australia 7s,
Australia captain Ed Jenkins and Team GB captain Emily Scarratt have been announced as World Rugby’s Keep Rugby Clean ambassadors in Rio de Janeiro and with just one day to go until rugby sevens makes its debut at the Olympic Games, the pair joined together with the sport’s governing body to pledge their support to
The stars of rugby sevens are on the home straight of the road to Rio 2016 following confirmation of the men’s and women’s squads who will represent rugby, and their nation, on sport’s biggest stage for the first time in 92 years. With interest and excitement high throughout the global rugby community, National Olympic Committees,
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