Women's Rugby Sevens Qualification to Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

[SalamAkhi 323]

Qualified :           

 

Final repêchage tournament :            

 

11 of the 12 World Series team have qualified. Spain the odd one out even failed to get to the repêchage.

Interesting tournament since it will quite simply be a Challenger Series additional edition (with Samoa and Jamaica instead of Thailand and Belgium), so how each team compares to the others will be known beforehand. 

[mpjmcevoy 362]

  On 11/20/2023 at 10:43 AM, SalamAkhi said:

Qualified :           

 

Final repêchage tournament :            

 

11 of the 12 World Series team have qualified. Spain the odd one out even failed to get to the repêchage.

Interesting tournament since it will quite simply be a Challenger Series additional edition (with Samoa and Jamaica instead of Thailand and Belgium), so how each team compares to the others will be known beforehand. 

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I'd say Samoa are strong favourites BUT I wouldn't under-estimate the Kenyans or Argentinians. Anyone else would be a bit of a shock, but shocks do happen and this looks, like the Challenger series, like a cracking competition. Like Field Hockey, final Olympic Qualifiers can provide a hell of  a spectacle in themselves (last time in field hockey when Canada and Ireland split the last chance saloon finals, ties were extraordinarily tense - other team sports take note!)

[rafalgorka 1,634]

  On 11/20/2023 at 2:17 PM, mpjmcevoy said:

I'd say Samoa are strong favourites BUT I wouldn't under-estimate the Kenyans or Argentinians. Anyone else would be a bit of a shock, but shocks do happen and this looks, like the Challenger series, like a cracking competition. Like Field Hockey, final Olympic Qualifiers can provide a hell of  a spectacle in themselves (last time in field hockey when Canada and Ireland split the last chance saloon finals, ties were extraordinarily tense - other team sports take note!)

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Don't underestimate China here.

[JoshMartini007 2,559]

Samoa is pretty weak in women's rugby sevens, to the point where they could realistically finish last in the final qualifier.  is a better Pacific nation and that's not saying much either.

 

Predicting rugby sevens is a fool's game, but I can use a laugh in a few months  

 

 

 

Let's see how far off I am...

[MatiReimundo 354]

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[Jur 687]

I'm still so mad that Spain lost that freaking match in the European Games, like how can you play SO bad being a core team like... it made no sense. It would have been a easy win at the preolympic should they qualified...

[SalamAkhi 323]

  On 11/20/2023 at 2:17 PM, mpjmcevoy said:

I'd say Samoa are strong favourites BUT I wouldn't under-estimate the Kenyans or Argentinians. Anyone else would be a bit of a shock, but shocks do happen and this looks, like the Challenger series, like a cracking competition. Like Field Hockey, final Olympic Qualifiers can provide a hell of  a spectacle in themselves (last time in field hockey when Canada and Ireland split the last chance saloon finals, ties were extraordinarily tense - other team sports take note!)

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I feel you've mistaken this thread for the men's, else I can't see how you would make these calls in all seriousness 

[SalamAkhi 323]

  On 11/20/2023 at 5:16 PM, MatiReimundo said:

My predictions:

 

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Invert Samoa and PNG and we're kinda good. As I said, most of the participating teams will battle each other out in the Challengers, thus creating a coherent draw. Not that it matters in a winner-takes-it-all tournament but that's more fair anyway.

[SalamAkhi 323]

First Challenger last week in Dubaï :

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

Difficult tournament for the European teams. Poland seem to struggle a little bit lately. Czech Republic managed to win against Kenya in pool stage but tumbled after that. Belgium, who won't be in Monaco, didn't look dominant and wasted a shot at the SF against Uganda, who overachieved a bit here I'd say.

Kenya didn't make it easy for China but the latter looked the better team overall, though their path to Paris is not written. Argentina is indeed climbing up, I highly fancy their chances in a few months time.

[rybak 3,238]

  On 1/15/2024 at 4:02 PM, SalamAkhi said:

First Challenger last week in Dubaï :

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

Difficult tournament for the European teams. Poland seem to struggle a little bit lately. Czech Republic managed to win against Kenya in pool stage but tumbled after that. Belgium, who won't be in Monaco, didn't look dominant and wasted a shot at the SF against Uganda, who overachieved a bit here I'd say.

Kenya didn't make it easy for China but the latter looked the better team overall, though their path to Paris is not written. Argentina is indeed climbing up, I highly fancy their chances in a few months time.

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We did beat  and , but did lost to  in group and then in QF to  by big margin, then  beat us in lucky for them way in 5th place match. Our girls had problems with used to local climate and two our best players didn't played here, one by injury, second by pregnancy. I believe that it will be better for them to be in peak of form in June, when it will matter the most, than now.