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The men's rugby sevens tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held at Stade de France, which also served as a host stadium of the 2023 Rugby World Cup.The tournament was played over three match days from 24 to 27 July 2024, with no matches on 26 July due to the Olympics opening ceremony.
In 2023 World Rugby re-branded the now legacy World Sevens series to a new World Rugby SVNS Series (known for sponsorship reasons as the HSBC SVNS).Starting in December 2023 in Dubai, Cape Town, Perth, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Singapore and will conclude in Madrid in June 2024.
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 USA Rugby Club 7s National Championship is the top annual American rugby sevens competition organized by USA Rugby. It involves the best sixteen men's and women's clubs (32 clubs total) in the United States.
The total number of teams for the 2023–24 Sevens Series was reduced from sixteen to twelve, similar to the Women's series. [1] Canada men won the Promotion/Relegation play-off in London on 21 May 2023, [ 2 ] and thus make up the twelfth team and South Africa women were promoted from the Challenger Series.
Franklin's Kristi Kirshe fights off a tackle playing for the USA Rugby 7s team. ... playing for USA Rugby 7s. She was a three-sport athlete in high school and picked up rugby after graduating from ...
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.