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BBC will be covering all 32 World Cup games

25 August 2024 0 comments

By PAUL MARTIN On top: WXV champions England are favourotes to lift the World Cup WORLD Rugby CEO Alan Gilpin believes a groundbreaking partnership with […]

Portia takes her leave in fine style

4 August 2024 0 comments

By PAUL EDDISON at Stade de France SEVENS queen Portia Woodman-Wickliffe bowed out in the perfect manner as New Zealand retained their Olympic women’s title. […]

Why SVNS makes sense for the future

4 August 2024 0 comments

CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED Rugby sevens – or SVNS, as a London-based team of funkily-dressed marketing executives have somehow succeeded in rebranding it – used […]

Call me The Stag – but I was stuck with Bambi

4 August 2024 0 comments

MY LIFEIN RUGBY THE FORMER SCOTLAND SEVENS INTERNATIONAL AND GLASGOW HAWKS/WARRIORS, WATERLOO AND BEDFORD BACK ROWER RORY McKAY IT’S been great watching the Rugby Sevens […]

Increase the teams in Olympic Sevens

4 August 2024 0 comments

SOMETIMES you just have to say well done. To witness six days of raucous sell-outs at the Stade de France for the two Sevens competitions […]

Ellie Kildunne says Great Britain can do ‘something special’ at Paris Olympics

26 July 2024 0 comments

Ciaran Beattie’s side face Ireland on July 28 in their opening pool match at the Stade de France. England full-back Ellie Kildunne feels “something special” […]

Try-fest with big issues below the surface

21 April 2024 0 comments

The Paris Games, more formally known as the XXXIII Olympiad, are almost upon us and the Rugby Sevens schedule is full to overflowing. Yet there […]

Lucu the man to replace Dupont

21 January 2024 0 comments

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN An email drop and social media flurry confirmed the line-up of France’s 34-player training squad for the Six Nations, which kicks […]

Experts Predict the Front-Runners of the HSBC Sevens Challenger 2024 Dubai Opener

10 January 2024 0 comments

The HSBC Sevens Challenger Series 2024 — the men’s and women’s parity makeover of the World Rugby’s international 7s series is about to kick off. […]

Returning from the ‘dead’ to play again

26 November 2023 0 comments

Jon Newcombe talks to Morgan MacRae, the Welsh hooker determined to resurrect his career HAVING gone into cardiac arrest and having been resuscitated four times […]

Ounsley: We want to bring home gold next time

16 July 2023 0 comments

By BEN JAYCOCK Having been forced to watch her Exeter side come up just short in the Premier 15s final, Jodie Ounsley is hoping to […]

Dubai Rugby Sevens 2023. What you need to know

10 July 2023 0 comments

Hundreds of thousands of professionals, amateurs, and spectators flocked to the UAE for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the Dubai Sevens rugby players’ rally, international […]

GB women earn Olympic Sevens qualification while men beaten to spot by Ireland

28 June 2023 0 comments

A gold medal in the European Games secured Great Britain’s women a place at the 2024 Olympic Sevens competition, but a silver medal for their […]

11 Mixed

26 March 2023 0 comments

THE U11s Mixed Festival took place on Friday, giving a new day slot for the U11s and the chance for U11 girls to get involved […]

Dubai Seven Tourist Guide

2 March 2023 0 comments

Dubai Sevens is an international rugby sevens competition and event at The Sevens Stadium in Dubai. The event is one of the world’s most important […]

Phillips out to guide China to Olympics

7 August 2022 0 comments

ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler FORMER England Sevens star Ollie Phillips has taken over as coach of the China […]

Coventry Stadium set to welcome the Rugby Sevens spirit for Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games

6 July 2022 28 comments

We might be biased, but here at Birmingham 2022 we firmly feel that rugby is best enjoyed in the sunshine. Get ready to soak in […]

Fiji’s double gold shows they have so much more to give | Jeff Probyn

1 August 2021 0 comments

How can World Rugby set a structure to aid the development of Fiji and the Pacific Islands?

Norton to spearhead Team GB’s search for Tokyo gold

20 June 2021 0 comments

TOM Mitchell will lead the men’s squad at the Tokyo Olympics looking to go one better than their silver medal five years ago. Four players […]

Ireland Women head coach Griggs goes for 7s speedsters

28 March 2021 0 comments

AMEE-LEIGH Murphy Crowe, the top try scorer in the 2019 World Rugby Sevens, joins Sevens teammates Stacey Flood, Eve Higgins, Emily Lane and Grace Moore […]

World Rugby recruits from within to find Brett Gosper’s successor

18 March 2021 1 comment

Alan Gilpin has been announced as the new chief executive of World Rugby

Japan star Fukuoka was accepted by medical school

5 March 2021 2 comments

If you like rugby then you know the big star Kenki Fukuoka, who is a great player. However, he has been accepted by a medical […]

England Sevens flyer Dan Norton becomes latest London Irish signing

18 August 2020 0 comments

The World Sevens Series tries record-holder has been on the circuit for the past 12 years

Rugby risks being banished from the Olympics amid homophobia row

29 April 2020 0 comments

Calls for World Rugby to face probe from IOC over breach of code of ethics

Can England 7s end their wait for a Sevens Series crown? We talk to Ollie Phillips

17 January 2019 0 comments

Phillips is undertaking a sizeable challenge to Mount Everest in April… and he’s taking a rugby ball with him!

We believe England can win it, says talismanic forward James Rodwell

19 July 2018 0 comments

James Rodwell is not short of confidence aheading to the Sevens Rugby World Cup in San Francisco

London Calling: Don’t miss out on Sevens action!

28 March 2018 0 comments

This year’s HSBC London Sevens will be a celebration of everything that makes the capital great, as the World Series visits Twickenham Stadium on 2-3 […]

England Sevens triumph in Cape Town

11 December 2016 0 comments

Three tries from England stunned the Cape Town crowd as Simon Amor’s men beat South Africa 17-19 in the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series Cup […]

Tuitavake heading to Northampton

22 September 2016 0 comments

Northampton Saints has announced the signing of Nafi Tuitavake. The Tongan international joins the Saints from Narbonne, where he has played for the past year […]

Shane Williams: James Davies proved he is the man for a big occasion

17 August 2016 0 comments

I’m sure I’m not the only person who has been gripped this week by the Olympic Sevens. Any doubts over whether rugby’s place in the […]

McConnochie replaces Davis in Team GB Sevens squad

4 August 2016 0 comments

Alex Davis has been ruled out of the Rio Olympics following an injury to his right ankle and will be replaced in Team GB‘s sevens […]

England Sevens change three for Port Elizabeth

10 December 2014 0 comments

England have made three enforced changes to their squad ahead of the Port Elizabeth leg of the World Rugby Sevens Series. Alex Davis, Sam Stanley […]

VIDEO: The rise of rugby in Japan

4 April 2014 1 comment

Christina Macfarlane looks at the rise of rugby in an unlikely place. Video courtesy of CNN’s International’s ‘Rugby Sevens Worldwide’, sponsored by HSBC.

Quins v Saints available for all on BT Sports on Friday

10 September 2013 1 comment

TV viewers across the UK will be able to watch this Friday’s top Aviva Premiership Rugby clash between Harlequins and Northampton Saints, after BT announced […]