Men's Rugby Sevens Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

[SalamAkhi 323]

The question for Ireland and Samoa is : in which order will they qualify ? Mexico is very weak, weaker than Jamaica, Uganda is a bit stronger than Zimbabwe, Chile and Tonga are on the same level but this time it will be an experimental Tongan squad with 15 a-side European based players. All in all pool B is probably more homogeneous. For the 3 favorites the tournament won't be won before the semis.

[mpjmcevoy 362]

  On 5/11/2021 at 1:24 PM, dodge said:

The favourable bit to France is they don’t have to play any team of note until the semi final 

 

by then whoever they’ve faced will likely have had 2 tight games 

 

France, effectively, has a bye to the semi final 

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True, but the winner of the first Samoa v Ireland match likely has all but a bye to the final - the runner up they'd face in the France group would be the weak link in the Semis - France have much easier group, but almost guaranteed tougher knockout - winner of Ireland Samoa group should have relatively straight forward semi, while loser is really no worse off than France, as they'd face a France, Ireland/Samoa route anyway

[hckošice 15,101]

Updated as of June 20th, 2021

[AmericanHero40 221]

I believe the groups for men are now:

 

New Zealand/Australia/Argentina/South Korea

Fiji/United Kingdom/Canada/Japan

South Africa/USA/Kenya/Ireland

[Benolympique 2,398]

https://www.world.rugby/tournaments/olympics/pools