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For years, South Africa refused Olympic sports for teams qualified on continental or repechage sports.

 

If they win the men's repechage, they will sure revert that policy.

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Here's my photos: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:2023_South_American_Rugby_Sevens

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Here's my photos: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:2023_South_American_Women's_Sevens

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The Teros 7s played very well except at the final match. They made a few mistakes, but Chile did even more. Murphy's law it seems.

 

Fun fact: the previous two appearances on Uruguay in Olympic team sports (not counting doubles) were men's football in London 2012 and men's basketball in Los Ángeles 1984. Plus basque pelota in Barcelona 1992, which was a demonstration sport.

Edited June 19, 2023 by NaBUru38

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I attended on Sunday, it was freezing. Next time please do it in March-April or October-November.

 

There was a reasonable crowd, unlike the South American Women's Sevens held in previous years also in Montevideo but at the Torneo Valentín Martínez.

 

I'll upload the photos to Wikimedia Commons ass soon as I can.

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The South American Men's Sevens will be held this weekend at the Estadio Charrúa in Montevideo, Uruguay.

 

It will feature 6 teams: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Perú and Uruguay.

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The South American Women's Sevens will be held this weekend at the Estadio Charrúa in Montevideo, Uruguay.

 

It will feature 7 teams: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Perú and Uruguay.

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Oceania has a direct qualifier and there's a repechage. So Oceania only needs two teams in the top 4 of the World Series to qualify all four of New Zealand, Australia, Fiji and Samoa.

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We have a nice problem, as we have to prepare for the World Cup while competing at the Sevens World Series.

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Yes, just a direct knockout is ridiculous.

 

In the T2 Rugby forum, I proposed doing the tournament over two weekends, with the group phase in the first, and the knockout phase in the second.

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¡Vamos Teros! Hong Kong was always a tough rival.

 

Congrats also to Chile, who defeated Germany.

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It's a rather big dilemma, since next year it's the World Cup. The federation has few professional players, most of them in Peñarol and only a dozen in Europe or North America.

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The Teros won the World Rugby Sevens Challenger and qualified to the 2022-23 Sevens World Series. Another historic achievement...

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Unfortunately, the Punta del Este Sevens hasn't been held in 2021 or 2022.

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No New Zealand or Scotland is quite depressing.

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The 2021/22 Sevens World Series will start the last week of November at Dubai, followed by another tournament at Dubai the next week.

 

For confusing reasons, Great Britain will play at Dubai, whereas the other rounds will feature England, Scotland and/or Wales.

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Indeed.

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The Women's World Series will also have just two rounds in Canada.

 

And there will be just four teams: Canada, United States, Great Britain and France.

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The Men's World Series will have just two rounds in Canada. The other rounds were cancelled.

 

Fiji, New Zealand, Australia and Argentina will not enter.

 

There will be a single Great Britain team.

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2021 Men's World Series:

 

• September 18-19: Vancouver
• September 25-26: Edmonton
• October 29-30: Singapore
• November 5-7: Hong Kong
• December 3-4: Dubai
• December 10-12: Cape Town

 

2021 Women's World Series:

 

• October TBC: Paris
• November 5-7: Hong Kong
• December 3-4: Dubai
• December 10-12: Cape Town

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The Canada Servens is this weekend. The 16th team is Japan.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Canada_Sevens

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Chile and Uruguay hosted the World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_World_Rugby_Sevens_Challenger_Series_–_Men's_tour

 

Japan, Uruguay, Hong Kong, Chile, Germany, italy, Tonga and Jamaica were the top 8 teams, and qualified to the Hong Kong qualifier.

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World Rugby wants to fit a 16-team men's tournament and a 12-team women's tournament in 2 days. Therefore, there are no quarter-finals, just Cup semis and place matches for the rest. Absoultely insane.

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Next weekend it's the Hong Kong Sevens.

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The next best North American teams will qualify to the world Olympic qualifier.