Sevens Rugby

After 24 games and 1033 points tallied across two weekends of summer sevens action, attention now turns to the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, where on Sunday (7th August) eight teams will battle it out for the 2016-17 season’s first piece of silverware.

Fiji Sevens head coach Ben Ryan is hoping to inspire the sportspersons in the country by winning the maiden gold medal in the upcoming Rio Olympics for the sevens team.

There is no hiding the fact that rugby sevens is a very unique game. Arguably, there is no other sport like it. The amount of space creates a much higher tempo and as a result, makes it a much more open contest between the two teams.

For the first time in the sports history, rugby sevens will be part of the Olympic Games this summer

Newcastle Falcons 7s coach Mark Laycock is confident of his team excelling under the pressure of playing at home ahead of the Singha Premiership Rugby 7s matches at Kingston Park on Saturday.

England 7s Development Player Callum Sirker talks to TRU about bouncing back from a long term injury and his aspirations moving forward in the game which he has adored all his life.

President of Rugby Europe Octavian Morariu believes the Sevens Rugby is gaining a lot of popularity and the inclusion of the sport in the Olympics will only help it grow wider.

In our third article in the Say it in 7 series, we analyse how rugby sevens is a great platform for emerging talent to make their mark on the sport and use parallels with the business world to explain this.

In April we travelled to West Park Leeds twice in a week to follow BUCS Rugby 7s; our first visit saw bright sunshine, our second snow.

Director of rugby at Newcastle Falcons Dean Richards believes Marcus Watson has been presented with a huge opportunity to progress his career after he was named in the 12-man Great Britain Sevens squad for the Rio Olympics 2016.

The British Olympic Association on Tuesday has announced the GB Sevens squad of the men's and women's teams that will be competing in the upcoming Olympics.

In our second article in the Say it in 7 series, we take a look at how important focusing on the audience and opposition is. We use examples to show how analysing your opponents can help you gain the desired outcome and how important having a plan is in both rugby and business.

National Football League star Nate Ebner has been included in the 12-man squad of United States Rugby Sevens that will feature in the upcoming Rio Olympics 2016.

Great Britain Royals beat Great Britain Lions 26-14 in the final of the Gdynia Sevens in Poland, but Russia tops the overall standings to claim the Rugby Europe Sevens Grand Prix Series title.

Former England captain Ollie Phillips believes the addition of Sevens Rugby in the upcoming Rio Olympics 2016 will provide the spectators "a cracking spectacle".

The RFU have created a national 7s competition - did you know that? A series of existing tournaments throughout England have become the qualifiers and the Skofic7s at Tarleton Rugby Club was one such event.

France led by their skipper Terry Bouhraoua top the leaderboard with 36 points in the Rugby Europe Sevens Grand Prix Series with the final leg of the tournament to be held on this weekend at the National Rugby Stadium in Gdynia, Poland.

Springboks wing Bryan Habana was left out of the final 12-man South Africa Sevens squad that will take part in the upcoming Olympics.

USA Rugby Sevens coach Mike Friday confirmed on Tuesday that the chances of National Football League star Nate Ebner making into the final 12-man squad to be part of the upcoming Olympics is evenly poised.

In our first article in the Say it in 7 series, we take a look at how important preparation is in rugby. We relate it to different aspects of preparation in business and we look at examples in the modern game of why preparation is such a crucial part of rugby.