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Franklin's Kristi Kirshe and the USA Rugby 7s team open play Sunday. Here's everything you need to know about the rules and the Olympic tournament.
Rugby is formally contested in two forms: 15s, the traditional version of the game, and 7s, which appeared 10 years after the game was invented in Melrose, Scotland, as a fundraiser for a local club.
The winner chooses to either kick-off or selects an end of the playing field to defend in the first half. If the decision is made to kick off, the loser of the coin toss chooses an end to defend, otherwise they must kick off. [16] After half time the teams swap ends and the team that did not kick off in the first half starts play. [17]
A rugby sevens tournament was organised by Warrington F.C. (a rugby club) on their athletics day on 14 August 1886 but it was not repeated. A rugby sevens match was played in Chorley, Lancashire as part of the Chorley Rugby and Athletic club's sports day on 22 July 1888; another match looks to have taken place the following year on 24 August 1889.
The earliest records of an American national rugby sevens team are from the 1986 and 1988 Hong Kong Sevens, where a team named the American Eagles won the Plate Final. [2] The team competed as the United States national rugby sevens team at the inaugural 1993 Rugby World Cup Sevens .
The United States women's rugby sevens team won its first Olympic medal ever at the Paris Games, upsetting Australia 14-12 as time ran out. Alex Sedrick took hold of the ball and scored after a 85 ...
Rugby league nines (or simply nines) is a version of rugby league football played with nine players on each side. The game is substantially the same as full rugby league, with some differences in rules and shorter games. Nines is usually played in festivals, as its shorter game play allows for a tournament to be completed in a day or over a ...
In 2019, South Africa won against Fiji, who made it again to the finals. The home team, Germany, finished 4th after losing to the All Blacks Sevens from New Zealand [3] in the bronze medal match. In 2020 and 2021, the Oktoberfest Rugby 7s, had been cancelled due to the corona pandemic. The tournament will return to the Olympic Stadium in Munich ...