2020-2021 World Sevens Series
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A bit strange to start a new thread about the 2020-2021 World Sevens Series with a cancellation, but it happens to be the first news about the upcoming season.
Plans revised for HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2021Following the recently announced conclusion of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with New Zealand confirmed as both men’s and women’s champions, World Rugby and its partners are continuing to focus on planning for the 2021 Series and the build-up to the Olympic Games in Tokyo, which are now less than one year away.
After a comprehensive consultation process and constructive dialogue with the host organisations, it has been decided that the combined men’s and women’s Dubai and Cape Town rounds of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2021, which were provisionally scheduled for 26-28 November and 4-6 December, 2020 respectively, will not take place due to the ongoing and dynamic global nature of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The decisions were taken in line with relevant government and international public health authority advice and with the health and wellbeing of the rugby community and the wider public taking precedence. Both hosts are due to return to a full Series schedule beyond this season.
World Rugby and its partners continue to focus on delivering the remainder of the 2021 men’s and women’s Series, while working in full collaboration with all stakeholders to closely monitor the ongoing and challenging COVID-19 environment.
With 21 of the 24 teams already qualified for the Olympic rugby sevens competition in Tokyo, planning for the Olympic Repechage final qualification event in the first half of 2021 is ongoing.
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@Stargazer yup England have already done it. Proves that, despite even the Olympics, 7s is just a side show. Ditch it, and tens, nines, all the other crap like thirteens. Concentrate in real core value rugby
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@Machpants said in 2020-2021 World Sevens Series:
@Stargazer yup England have already done it. Progress that, despite even the Olympics, 7s is just a side show. Ditch it, sand tens, nines, all the other crap like thirteens. Concentrate in real core value rugby
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@booboo said in 2020-2021 World Sevens Series:
@Machpants said in 2020-2021 World Sevens Series:
@Stargazer yup England have already done it. Progress that, despite even the Olympics, 7s is just a side show. Ditch it, sand tens, nines, all the other crap like thirteens. Concentrate in real core value rugby
Sniggered at that too.
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@Machpants said in 2020-2021 World Sevens Series:
@Stargazer yup England have already done it. Proves that, despite even the Olympics, 7s is just a side show. Ditch it, and tens, nines, all the other crap like thirteens. Concentrate in real core value rugby
I couldn't disagree more. Setting up a 7s programme at my old club was excellent - gave plenty of us something else to do in summer and gave us a good core of fit, tight players in the prems that was very successful following that "inaugural" setup.
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@Machpants I had no idea it is. So it costs WR to run the 7s?
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HSBC might be a bit upset at their investment in sevens and I doubt that it is a drain on WR?
Can you back that up @Machpants ? They have some hugely successful tournaments - some not so much.
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The 2021 Hamilton and Sydney Sevens have been called off.
World Rugby media release: https://www.world.rugby/sevens-series/news/583528/rugby-sevens-boosted-by-preparation-investment-ahead-of-olympic-games
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