Gordon Tietjens arguably the greatest coach in Rugby Sevens has signed a new contract with the New Zealand RFU that sees him stay in charge of the Sevens squad until the Olympics in 2016. The All Blacks have been helped by the work Tietjens has done in developing new players in the art of Sevens, which produces players who are aware of space and need speed and skill to … [Read more...]
Past Rugby Olympic Champions
We thought we would do a bit of checking with Sevens coming to the 2016 Olympics who were the past medal winners. We know that the USA are the existing champions as they won the last time in 1924, the others are the USA 91920) who have won twice, with France (1900) and Australia (1908) the others. The lesser medals are split France two silver, Germany and Britain have each … [Read more...]