Dec 24 (Reuters) - England's former rugby sevens ace Ben Gollings has been appointed coach of double Olympic champions Fiji for three years, the Fiji Rugby Union said on Friday. The 41-year-old ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... TOKYO — Jerry Tuwai is a two-time Olympic champion and his Fiji rugby sevens squad has given the people of their Pacific island nation a reason to celebrate ...

For Baber and his players, it’s been a strange and long journey preparing for an Olympic Games in the middle of a global pandemic. “We locked them down for five months,” he told the media after his ...

Wellington, New Zealand — Emerging gingerly from their homes in a nation under curfew, Fijians cheered, sang hymns and danced in the streets Wednesday to celebrate the victory of their rugby sevens ...

The Fiji men's rugy team won gold in rugby sevens at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday. After the final, the player's emotionally sang a traditional Fijian song on the podium. The song was a tribute to ...

TOKYO — The wonders of the Olympics include that a heart can melt suddenly for some team from some faraway place the heart has never even visited, such as, say, Fiji. It’s understandable. Out of all ...

SYDNEY, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Welsh coach Gareth Baber, who led Fiji to the defence of their Olympic rugby Sevens title in Tokyo, has rejected an offer to stay on until the 2024 Paris Games and will ...

TOKYO (AP) – Reputations and rankings meant nothing when Fiji upset Canada and Britain raced to a 21-point lead against New Zealand on Day 1 of the Olympic women’s rugby sevens competition. The lack ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... TOKYO — Olympic champion Jerry Tuwai keeps repeating the mantra that Fiji treats every game as a final. Now Fiji’s Olympic rugby sevens title defense really ...

The HSBC Rugby Sevens tournament is coming to Los Angeles for the grand finale of the 2021-22 series, and a championship is on the line for the men’s side. South Africa, Australia, Argentina and Fiji ...

Baber's four-year deal was scheduled to end in December, but will now go through to 2021 after an agreement was reached with the Fiji Rugby Union (FRU). Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has ...

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