Rugby Sevens is ready to come back of age on the Olympic stage when the game has the honour of kicking off the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 in entrance of a capability crowd of 69,000 followers at Stade de France on Wednesday
Captain’s photograph name previous to the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games on the Olympic Village Plaza on 22 July, 2024 in Paris. Canada Girls lacking resulting from later arrival to the Village.
- Rugby sevens will kick-off the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 on 24 July, two days forward of the Opening Ceremony
- Males’s competitors will happen on 24, 25 and 27 July, with the ladies’s event following on 28-30 July. The lads’s last on 27 July would be the first workforce sport gold medal of the Video games
- Australia and Samoa kick off the lads’s competitors whereas hosts France start towards the USA and holders Fiji face debutants Uruguay
- Eire and Nice Britain start the ladies’s event on 28 July, whereas reigning champions New Zealand play Challenger champions China
- Full home of 69,000 followers anticipated for each session in Stade de France, which hosted the ultimate of Rugby World Cup 2023
Captains from the 12 males’s and 12 ladies’s groups gathered on the Olympic Village on Monday forward of what guarantees to be probably the most hotly contested and extremely anticipated rugby sevens occasion in historical past.
Following rugby sevens’ debut at Rio 2016 and the Covid affected Tokyo 2020 Video games, the game is ready to ‘come of age’ on the Olympic stage at its third version in Paris in entrance of a record-breaking crowd on the iconic Stade de France.
Rugby Sevens has confirmed to be one of many highest demand occasions within the Paris Video games with a greater than 550,000 followers anticipated to fill Stade de France throughout the eight competitors periods, and a worldwide tv viewers of many hundreds of thousands extra.
The lads’s competitors will happen on 24, 25 and 27 July, when the primary workforce sport gold medal of the Video games might be awarded to the lads’s rugby sevens champions. The equally extremely anticipated ladies’s event follows on 28-30 July.
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Australia and Samoa could have the honour of kicking off the Olympic competitors as they take to the sector for the primary match at 15:30 native time CET (GMT+2) on 24 July. Hosts and up to date SVNS Grand Ultimate champions France impressed by world famous person Antoine Dupont will get their marketing campaign underneath away the USA at 16:30 adopted by double Olympic champions Fiji who face debutants Uruguay at 17:00.
Eire and Nice Britain will get play underneath means within the ladies’s event at 15:30 on 28 July, whereas reigning champions New Zealand play Challenger champions China and SVNS Grand Ultimate champions Australia kick off towards South Africa.
The competitors format sees all groups play three pool matches with eight groups qualifying for the quarterfinals within the night session of the second day of competitors, earlier than the third day sees the semi-finals and the all-important medal matches as Olympic desires are realized and damaged.
Rugby sevens is anticipated to be one of many highlights of Paris 2024, following the resounding success of Rugby World Cup 2023 in France. All of the motion will happen at Stade de France, which was the venue for the opening match and last of Rugby World Cup 2023.
Fiji have famously gained each males’s gold medals thus far – Rio being their first ever Olympic medal – however 5 completely different nations have gained the lads’s SVNS Sequence since 2016, whereas Argentina had been topped SVNS 2024 league winners and France claimed the inaugural SVNS Grand Ultimate title in Madrid final month, demonstrating the depth of competitiveness.
Australia and New Zealand have lifted the ladies’s sevens sport to new ranges, profitable one Olympic gold every, whereas France took silver at Tokyo 2020 and will present a powerful problem on residence soil, together with the likes of the USA and Canada amongst others.
All six World Rugby areas are represented among the many 24 groups who secured their spots in Paris through the HSBC SVNS Sequence, regional qualification competitions and the World Rugby Sevens Repechage. There are three Olympic debutants with Uruguay and Samoa competing for the primary time within the males’s competitors whereas Eire’s ladies make their first Olympic look.
World Rugby Chairman Sir Invoice Beaumont mentioned: “We anticipate a ‘coming of age’ occasion as rugby sevens kicks off the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games at Stade de France on Wednesday.
“The Paris Video games is the jewel within the crown of the biggest-ever sevens season. The stage is ready for what might be a spectacular celebration of our sport at its breathtaking greatest.
“Over six days of extremely aggressive and compelling motion, the celebs of sevens will shine brightly in entrance of what guarantees to be a file crowd for Sevens at these ‘Video games vast open’, taking our sport, its values and the enjoyment of the Olympic Video games to file audiences around the globe. Paris is prepared. Rugby is prepared. Let’s kick these Video games off in model!”
Paris 2024 Government Sports activities Director Aurelie Merle added: “It’s going to be a giant day for Rugby Sevens, and it’s additionally a giant day for us at Paris 2024, with the beginning of competitions in each rugby and soccer. It’s our ‘kick-off’. The stage is ready – and what a stage!
“We wish to be sure that this third look of Rugby Sevens on the Olympic Video games is an distinctive and high-profile showcase of an exhilarating sport and its distinctive fan tradition. With Paris 2024, we hope so as to add one other dimension to the well-known social gathering tradition that Rugby Sevens is understood for. It’s an ideal match with our imaginative and prescient to make these Video games a spectacular and widespread celebration.”
USA ladies’s captain, Naya Taper mentioned: “Having so many followers within the stadium is each thrilling and in some way scary, at the very least for me. Tokyo 2020 was nice however we didn’t have the followers within the stands cheering or booing for us so I’m preparing for that stimulation. We’ve been making ready and are undoubtedly wanting ahead to start.
USA Girls’s Captain’s Naya Tapper, Lauren Doyle, and Males’s Captain Kevon Williams on the 2024 Captain’s photograph shoot.
“We’re very proud of what we have now been in a position to obtain final season, however we all know the previous is the previous and the current is the current. We’re coming right here with the training and the boldness we gained from final season, bringing it to this event.
“Making an allowance for we gained’t be the one one and no one will give us a simple sport, however we’re popping out right here to make our family and friends proud and get on that podium with a gold medal, not a silver, not a bronze, however a gold medal.
“It’s actually inspiring to be taking part in on such a giant platform. It pertains to our philosophy that girls is usually a supply of inspiration for anybody watching, younger boys and younger ladies, followers and new publics, being any individual they wish to observe behind and attempt to be like and making an attempt to be a job mannequin on and off the sector.”