Men's Rugby Sevens Tournament at the Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

[SalamAkhi 329]

Apart from a rather poor Australia v USA, the three first QF were giving high standards of play. Yes there are lots of scores but I feel the "give the ball to the speedster and score" is far from being true. Just look at how the South African defended on their line, preventing a near certain NZ try. When stakes are high, defense tends to dominate offense. 

[Grassmarket 4,027]

5 hours ago, stratocumulus said:

Well, I think that would be a new dimension to deal with - aka "not a bug but a feature". Maybe you would decide then to play passively in the initial phases and use the remainder of your power to strike back against your exhausted opponent in the final minutes?

 

I believe 10 instead of 7 minutes would be a decent change to start with. Now it seems a little like a "demo version" of the game (which I know it is to some extent :D). And it looks strange if you have 3mins of added time when you actually should play 7, so it is 40% more, equivalent to some 20min additional time in football. Would we see that in a football game, we would all go crazy, wouldn't we?;)

 

In a team sport where you have combined effort of a number of people it feels too trivial when 4 years of work come down to a performance as short as 2x7min (I think of NZ now especially). There could be more epic in it and there is definitely potential for it  

The added time at the end is a skill though. Ireland earned it against Fiji because they pulled off difficult moves something like 10 times in a row.

[diable 27]

Vamos Argentina! You can do it

 

Edit: Or not 

Edited July 27, 2024 by diable

[Josh 11,497]

Are there any free streams for the semifinals? Canadian broadcaster not streaming it 

[ChandlerMne 1,202]

ES wont show the semis too

 

[Gianlu33 5,276]

1 minute ago, ChandlerMne said:

ES wont show the semis too

 

It's on Discovery+ (or Max, name changes is some countries)

[ChandlerMne 1,202]

6 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

It's on Discovery+ (or Max, name changes is some countries)

Thanks, but in my case quite unusable. 

[Gianlu33 5,276]

Great try for South Africa, but a totally missed kick.

5-0 and still open, with 4 minutes left

[Gianlu33 5,276]

Dupont is really a game changer, France should build a statue

Final for the French.

[Gianlu33 5,276]

7-7 at half time. Let's go Fiji