Olympic Sevens 2024

[sparky]

DuPont scores.

[MiketheSnow]

Great for France
Great for the Games

Worthy winners

[sparky]

Good players have the skills.

Great players grab games by the scruff of the neck and impose their will on proceedings. And Antonie DuPont has done exactly that in the Olympic Final of a home games to win France their first Gold medal of 2024.

[sparky]

Rugby's biggest superstar since Jonah the Great.

All hail Antonie Dupont.

Well done France.

[sparky]

French Rugby's greatest moment.

[game_film]

@sparky holy shit. An all time great backhanded compliment.

[sparky]

@game_film I have so much respect for French Rugby after coming within a lick of paint of spoiling our most special moment in 2011.

Glad in a way they got theirs.

[Billy Tell]

Dupont was awesome.

[sparky]

@Billy-Tell said in Olympic Sevens 2024:

Dupont was awesome.

To put it mildly.

Lots of people calling him the Messi of Rugby or the GOAT.

He's still behind Richie McCaw, Gareth Edwards and John Eales for me. But he's 27 and has more chapters to be written. One of the very greatest ever that's for sure.

[sparky]

[Billy Tell]

French team in their after match gear look like they’ve taken up test match cricket.

[Billy Tell]

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[booboo]

@booboo said in Olympic Sevens 2024:

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@KiwiPie said in Olympic Sevens 2024:

I know the football has to start early to fit in the whole comp with enough gaps between games. But is the Sevens starting early just because of other events coming up in the stadium?

Yes. Basically have to play the men’s and women’s before the athletics start.

Are there no other Stadiums in Paris?

Park de Princes holds nearly 50K.

[sparky]

@booboo Also Stade Jean Bouin, next to PdP, which hosts 20,000 and is home to Stade Francais Rugby Club.

[sparky]

Image of the Games so far.

[Bones]

Every games has a hometown hero. Good start

[BerniesCorner]

Wonderful player. Humanity needs people like this.
Such a shame in Rugby WC 2023 the draw was so messed up we didn't see more of France.
The French WC atmosphere was lacking in the semis and beyond. I missed it.

[Machpants]

Used throughout most of his 7s time to bringing his visions and skill from the bench. I hope to see BB do the same thing, he seems to be able to come on and change the game with a full brief from the coaching/analytics team and his own vision it makes sense

[MiketheSnow]

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