Sevens and the Olympic Games

Find out why Rugby Sevens would be such a great addition to the Olympic Games

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• Rugby Sevens
• Olympic Games

[GLove39]

Yay, rugby has made it into the olympics. By 81 votes to 8. Looking forward to 2016!

[nielsnoor]

if it doesn't make it, i will never watch the olympics again...

[TucksterJack]

Sevens makes sense because it fast and entertaining and still has the awesomeness of rugby.

[TH3G0DF4TH3R]

Hope to be representing Canada by then in 2016...

[Chrislaar]

@GustavoCLa Countries where 7s is popular: NZ, SA, Australia, UK, Ireland, USA, Russia, Kenya, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Argentina, Portugal, Papua New Guinea, UAE, Hong Kong, Canada and it's growing still. and several players have played 7s for most of their career, eg Ben Gollings, Uale Mai and DJ Forbes. It's also used as a development tool for young up and coming stars of test rugby, such as a young Jonah Lomu

[GustavoCLa]

@Chrislaar Tottaly different story. Athletes of futsal spend their hole career playing futsal. It's not a subcategory of football. While rugby 7 seems to be a sort of entertainment for rugby 15 players and fans. I'm becoming more tolerant to rugby 7 in the Olympics but I still think itl lacks the global popularity to justify it. It's very popular in some 10 countries but in the remaining 190 it barely exists. Futsal is definetly more spreaded.

[Chrislaar]

@GustavoCLa i know right? like who would let subcategories of sports into the olympics, like why don't they just have one running race instead of all these stupid 100m, 200m, 400m etc.... and so many different types of swimming? and so you're supposing they allow indoor football in when football's already an olympic sport? 7s is in cos it's fast and exciting to watch and a fantastic sport. and 7s is also popular in other countries, such as Argentina and it is growing in the Netherlands

[GustavoCLa]

So many sports trying to enter in the Olympics and they let a SUBCATEGORY of a sport comes in. Unbelievable. The fact that a small country like Fiji can win a medal isn't a quality of a sport. Actually it shows how it's not spreaded around the world. Reason rugby is in the olympics: it's relatively popular in English-speaking countries. Futsal should be in the Olympics, not rugby.

[DjDNF]

DUBAI RUGBY 7'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[foxnews63]

i cant wait that long!

[bombertheelephant]

@nocountry4oldgators for your information it was part of the Olympics many years ago and is being reinstated...the USA were Olympic champs in Rugby then apparently!