Olympic Sevens 2024
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Cracking match
Great comeback from the Argies
Then Dupont sees France home
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Ireland leading Fiji 10-7 at the half
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Ireland up 15-7
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Fiji back in a flash
Fiji up 17-15
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Ireland fucked that up
Was like watching the 2023 RWC
Out at the QF
Nothing if not consistent
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@Bovidae said in Olympic Sevens 2024:
If Fiji loses all three medalists from Tokyo would be out in the QF.
Once sports hit the Olympics, major countries pump money into them. Money talks. We would see the same in XV if it was a global sport - whole programmes to develop athletes.
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IMO, this highlights the absurdity of the scheduling, plenty of athletes are out of the Olympics before they have even started, 'officially'.
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@taniwharugby said in Olympic Sevens 2024:
IMO, this highlights the absurdity of the scheduling, plenty of athletes are out of the Olympics before they have even started, 'officially'.
So they spend 2 weeks in the village partying?
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@KiwiMurph said in Olympic Sevens 2024:
@nzzp said in Olympic Sevens 2024:
Once sports hit the Olympics, major countries pump money into them. Money talks.
Really? Great Britain aren't there. USA got smashed by Fiji. Australia parachuted in Marky Mark and Corey Toole
USA and Canada are ahead of Fiji in the circuit at the moment.
I watch from afar, but it seemed to me a bunch of countries suddenly invested in tehir development programmes as soon as it made full olympic status
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@nzzp do they though? Assume the village accommodation is planned out too with events coming/going?
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@taniwharugby said in Olympic Sevens 2024:
@nzzp do they though? Assume the village accommodation is planned out too with events coming/going?
hah I have no idea. Just figured it may not be the complete trainwreck picture you painted. Happy to be corrected ... but I thought people got to stay on
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@taniwharugby closing ceremony? Still lots of athletes there!
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@nzzp said in Olympic Sevens 2024:
USA and Canada are ahead of Fiji in the circuit at the moment.
I wouldn't read too much into the circuit in an Olympic year. A bit like TRC in a World Cup year.
I remember in 2016 our 7s team won Wellington and Sydney legs back to back and then crashed out badly at Rio.
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The refs play such a big role in sevens. Some calls which led to tries that should/may not have been.
@KiwiMurph Yes, Fiji seem to come good at the Olympics.
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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.
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