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Fiji favourites but anything can happen

Jon Newcombe looks ahead to the men’s rugby Sevens competition at the Olympic Games which gets underway in Tokyo on Monday, July 26-28

WALES winning the men’s Sevens Rugby World Cup in 2009 as 80/1 outsiders was proof if any were needed that anything can happen in a global Sevens tournament.
That element of unpredictability and excitement was one of the main reasons why the IOC voted in Sevens as an Olympic sport in the first place in Lausanne in 2009.
Debuting in Rio in 2016, Sevens wasted no time in converting a largely non-plussed Brazilian audience and quickly became ...

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