(Reuters) - Australian Chloe Dalton's hopes of defending the women's rugby sevens Olympic gold medal were crushed after she said she will miss next month's Tokyo Games due to a cheekbone fracture.

FILE - In this Aug. 8, 2016, file photo, Australia's Emilee Cherry, right, scores a try as Canada's Karen Paquin, defends during the women's rugby sevens semi final match at the Summer Olympics in Rio ...

Tokyo 2020 Olympic rugby sevens pools announced with less than a month to go; The 12 men’s and 12 women’s teams are in three pools of four teams; Reigning men’s gold and silver medalists Fiji and ...

Billy Odhiambo scores a try as Kenya contended with South Africa in their Tokyo Sevens IRB series in Japan, yesterday. [PHOTO: IRB The Kenya National Sevens team ended their string of poor ...

Women’s Olympic rugby sevens competition begins with France v Fiji at 09:00 local time (GMT+9) on Thursday; The 12 women’s teams are in three pools with reigning Olympic champions Australia set to ...

WELLINGTON, Aug 22 (Reuters) - New Zealand's team bidding for a rugby sevens gold medal at next year's Tokyo Olympics will not include any All Blacks after several approached declined to be involved.

Japan holds special memories for Tom Mitchell – ones that the sevens star hopes he can replicate next year on the biggest stage of all, writes Charlie Talbot-Smith. It was back in 2015 – when Tokyo ...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand Rugby's women's sevens co-coach said his team were preparing for the possibility of not being able to play any international teams ahead of next year's Tokyo ...

* A variation of the 15-aside rugby union game, sevens gets its name from the number of players on each team -- three forwards and four backs. * With two seven-minute halves, sevens is much shorter ...

SYDNEYSYDNEY — Emilee Cherry won’t be at the Tokyo Olympics to help Australia defend the gold medal it won in women’s rugby sevens at Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Cherry, a former women’s sevens player of ...