Men's Rugby Sevens Tournament at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

[Agger 1,664]

 giving  quite a challenge!

[Agger 1,664]

Said that a bit early

[Quaker2001 251]

Great win for Team USA over Kenya.  Huge try in the last minute for the comeback

[Gianlu33 4,728]

They are playing in an american football stadium? 

[Mkbw50 438]

It's a football stadium used by FC Tokyo

[rajiv 31]

Japan seems to have eligiblity rules  for it's rugby team similar to those that seem pretty standard   in baseball and softball 

Although to be fair  I expect that they are all fluent in the national language 

I know rugby is a pretty big sport in Japan and I guess they want to be competitive  but just generally  lack the big bodies required in home grown players ( although this doesn't seem to be a  problem in sumo )

[Grassmarket 3,610]

  On 7/27/2021 at 1:15 AM, rajiv said:

Japan seems to have eligiblity rules  for it's rugby team similar to those that seem pretty standard   in baseball and softball 

Although to be fair  I expect that they are all fluent in the national language 

I know rugby is a pretty big sport in Japan and I guess they want to be competitive  but just generally  lack the big bodies required in home grown players ( although this doesn't seem to be a  problem in sumo )

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Yeah, like all sports in Japan, the clubs belong to the big industrial companies. They recruit lots of Pacific Islanders who qualify as Japanese after several years’ residence.  But practically all countries in rugby do the same, even New Zealand.

[Olympian1010 8,070]

 loses to  12-14. I believe that puts them in danger of missing the quarterfinals.

[NearPup 3,198]

  On 7/27/2021 at 1:52 AM, Olympian1010 said:

 loses to  12-14. I believe that puts them in danger of missing the quarterfinals.

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I believe they are ahead of Canada, so they should be safe.

[LDOG 2,418]

  On 7/27/2021 at 1:52 AM, Olympian1010 said:

 loses to  12-14. I believe that puts them in danger of missing the quarterfinals.

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No chance, every team in this pool was 100% certain to advance from the start just because of Korea being there.