2020 -> 2021 Olympic Sevens (Tokyo)
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@nta said in 2020 -> 2021 Olympic Sevens (Tokyo):
@booboo said in 2020 -> 2021 Olympic Sevens (Tokyo):
@mariner4life said in 2020 -> 2021 Olympic Sevens (Tokyo):
@taniwharugby 12 months i reckon. 12 months of training and playing and they would be fuuuuuucking hard to stop. Those guys are genetic freaks.
Receivers, running backs, linebackers and safeties.
WADA testing...
As in "WADA you gonna do about it, comrade?"
I was referencing the earlier NFL discussion suggesting some of the genetic freaks may be enhanced within the NFL environment and may have to deal with a stricter testing regimen.
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@stargazer said in 2020 -> 2021 Olympic Sevens (Tokyo):
Full time: BF7s 29 - 7 Kenya
Good start.
They play GB at 9.30pm NZT tonight.
Who are the top 4 in world rankings?
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@canefan I don't think there are world rankings like in XVs. I think standings are based on the World Series, which haven't been played for a while. The last standings date from over a year ago (after 5 World Series legs):
1 NZ
2 Australia
3 Canada
4 France
5 USA
6 Russia
7 Fiji
8 England
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@stargazer said in 2020 -> 2021 Olympic Sevens (Tokyo):
@canefan I don't think there are world rankings like in XVs. I think standings are based on the World Series, which haven't been played for a while. The last standings date from over a year ago (after 5 World Series legs):
1 NZ
2 Australia
3 Canada
4 France
5 USA
6 Russia
7 Fiji
8 England
etcWe are the team to beat then...
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@canefan said in 2020 -> 2021 Olympic Sevens (Tokyo):
@stargazer said in 2020 -> 2021 Olympic Sevens (Tokyo):
@canefan I don't think there are world rankings like in XVs. I think standings are based on the World Series, which haven't been played for a while. The last standings date from over a year ago (after 5 World Series legs):
1 NZ
2 Australia
3 Canada
4 France
5 USA
6 Russia
7 Fiji
8 England
etcWe are the team to beat then...
You beat the 2nd ranked team in a home/away series 5-1 I believe, so yeah ... yours to lose
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Poor coverage on Sky Sport of the Sailing. All fleets are out sailing today but the two fleets they’ve decided to broadcast have no Kiwi sailors competing in them. A little frustrating.
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@nta said in 2020 -> 2021 Olympic Sevens (Tokyo):
@mariner4life said in 2020 -> 2021 Olympic Sevens (Tokyo):
Carlin Isles is not DK Metcalf or Tyreek Hill or Derrick Henry.
If it's all they do for 12 months, gee i would love to see it.
Of course i wouldn't, because 7s pays what some of those guys make in
a weekan hour.Fixed.
I reckon you'd need to recruit about 50 guys from those positions, and use your 12 months to get them up to speed.
Some guys aren't going to stand up mentally to the change, and some aren't physically going to enjoy 5-7 minutes of flat out exertion.
Once the passing is taken care of - which I think is the biggest hurdle - I reckon the rest of it is piss-easy for 7s.
I played state level (Iowa) in the US during my college days.
Compared with the American lads I played with - many of whom had been great High School football players who couldn't break in to collegiate level - I was as slow as molasses.
But it didn't stop me breaking the line by sidestepping them with my eyebrows.
