After 16 appearances in the Olympics, the tiny nation of Fiji has its first medal. And it is gold. The Fiji rugby sevens squad routed Great Britain in the gold medal game on Thursday night, winning 43 ...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Fiji is back on top of the world in rugby sevens. For New Zealand, it was double despair on the final day of the Rugby World Cup Sevens on Sunday. Fiji beat New Zealand ...
For Baber and his players, it’s been a strange and long journey preparing for an Olympic Games in the middle of a global pandemic. “We locked them down for five months,” he told the media after his ...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — England sevens star Ben Gollings has been appointed coach of Fiji’s Olympic-champion men’s rugby sevens team. Gollings succeeds fellow Englishman Ben Ryan, who guided ...
Emerging gingerly from their homes in a nation under curfew, Fijians cheered, sang hymns and danced in the streets Wednesday to celebrate the victory of their rugby sevens team at the Tokyo Olympics.
SYDNEY, March 10 (Reuters) - Olympic Rugby Sevens men's champions Fiji have sacked English coach Ben Gollings and appointed 2016 gold medallist Osea Kolinisau in his placeF some four months before ...
SUVA, Fiji — Osea Kolinisau led Fiji to its first ever Olympic gold medal when rugby sevens made its debut at the Summer Games in 2016 and now, as a coach, he’s turning to old teammate Jerry Tuwai to ...