Winning a medal in front of their home crowd is a goal for all Japanese athletes at the Tokyo Olympics. But Japan men’s sevens head coach, Kensuke Iwabuchi, also hopes to use the Games to establish a sevens culture in the country. Today marks one year until the men’s sevens tournament kicks off at ...
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Olympic Games the light at the end of the COVID tunnel for China Sevens
Head coach of the Chinese women’s Sevens team, Lu Zhuan says the postponed Olympics is allowing his squad to grow in skill and confidence ahead of next year’s Games in Tokyo. Despite the interruptions associated with the outbreak of COVID-19, Zhuan believes his athletes have continued to take ...
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games rugby sevens schedule confirmed
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games rugby sevens schedule confirmed,In a reverse from the previous edition in Rio, the men’s rugby sevens competition will take place first, running over three days from 26-28 July 2021, with the women’s competition following on 29-31 July 2021, which sees the gold medal match ...
Meet Anastassiya Khamova: One of Asia Rugby legends
Anastassiya Khamova from Kazakhstan has devoted her life for rugby and kept on giving this game everything she has in her power and talent and not only as a player but as a referee and as part of the team who made a presentation to the IOC- International Olympic Committee In October 2009 to include ...
How rugby sevens became an Olympic sport #OlympicDay
Humphrey Kayange was preparing for the penultimate event of the 2008-09 World Rugby Sevens Series at Twickenham when he received a momentous request. An email had pinged into his account inviting the Kenyan to remain in London after the tournament to join the team that would make rugby’s case for ...
COVID-19 Restrictions Not Hampering South Korea’s Olympic Preparation
Despite the ongoing restrictions of COVID-19, South Korea’s men's sevens team continue to surge forward in preparation for the 2021 Olympic Games. The team has been running a series of at-home training sessions to ensure all players remain mentally and physically fit during ...
Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo postponed
Asia Rugby President Mr Qais al Dhalai, on Tuesday, welcomed the decision to postpone the Tokyo Olympics and issued the following statement expressing solidarity with all involved. "We at Asia Rugby welcome the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee’s decision ...
World Rugby update on COVID-19 response measures
World Rugby has today announced further action in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. After detailed and constructive dialogue with the respective host and participating unions, and with the wellbeing of the global rugby family at heart, the following events have been postponed: The ...
New exhibition on the history of rugby at the Olympics
Ahead of the 2020 Olympics Games, the award-winning World Rugby Museum at Twickenham Stadium has launched a brand new exhibition titled ‘Rugby and the Olympics’, which officially opened at the museum in December. Speakers at this exclusive event included RFU CEO, Bill Sweeney, formerly CEO of the ...
Historic Korea book spot in Tokyo in sudden death thriller #Tokyo2020
Hosts Korea beat Hong Kong 12-7 in the final of the Asia Rugby Olympic Games qualifier to book their spot at next year’s Tokyo 2020. Seongmin Jang will steal the headlines after crossing in sudden death extra time, scoring a length of the field try having turned Hong Kong over on their own try ...