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 ...

TOKYOTOKYO — Jerry Tuwai and his Fiji teammates turned up on a Monday in May ready for a five-day training camp to prepare to defend their Olympic rugby sevens title. By Friday of that week, it was ...

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 ...

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 ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – 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 ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Rio de Janeiro gold medalist Jerry Tuwai will captain the defending champion Fiji men’s team in the rugby sevens tournament at the Tokyo Olympics. Tuwai was a member of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rugby sevens is still relatively new to the Olympics but it could easily become your new summer obsession. Here’s everything you need to know to dive in during the 2021 Olympics. After making a ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Olympic gold medal-winning sevens rugby coach Gareth Baber will not renew his contract with the Fiji Rugby Union when it expires in November. The Fiji union had offered ...