Great Britain Men’s Rugby 7’s team will start their quest for a medal on Tuesday, August 9th when they face Kenya in their opening Pool B match up. Team GB are in a group with Kenya, Japan and the strong New Zealand side. The top two teams from the group go ahead and reach the quarter finals. A group win for them would see them play either Fiji, USA, Argentina and Brazil,
While if Team GB end up as runners up then they would face either South Africa, Australia, France or Spain in the quarter finals. So winning the group and hopefully avoiding Fiji (who should win Group A) could be the best route ahead for Team GB. But of course, their crunch match in Group C will come against New Zealand. Team GB are 10/3 shots to win Group C, with the Kiwis going as 2/7 outright favourites there.
Team GB will also play Japan on Tuesday, before the big clash with New Zealand on Wednesday. The quarter finals are also played on Wednesday with the semi’s and Final itself in the Olympic Rugby 7’s contested on Thursday 11th.It was actually England who qualified for the Olympics, through the 2015 Sevens World Series (when they finished fourth). But as Team GB they are able to select Scottish and Welsh players too.
There is a big task ahead of them though, with Fiji, South Africa and New Zealand waiting in the mix. They are the strong powerhouses with Fiji having cruised to the 2015 Sevens World Series title, having won it the previous season as well. So that’s a good indicator and poor South Africa have finished runners up in each of the last four editions of the Sevens World Series, while New Zealand have won four of the last six, finishing third on the other two occasions.
Really the only other horse in the field is Australia who are in the mix but are not considered to be as strong as the other nations mentioned there. They are probably around the same mark as England are in the pecking order.
Olympic Rugby 7s Outright
Fiji 9/4, South Africa 9/4, New Zealand 5/2, Great Britain 10/1, Australia 10/1, USA 20/1, 33/1 bar
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