Paris: Both Britain’s seven-a-aspect rugby teams qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after England’s men and women won their tournaments on Sunday.
The guys beat France in the final in Colomiers, and their girl opposite numbers overcame domestic team Russia in Kazan earlier in the day in two qualifying competitions for European countries.
England represented Team GB in Olympic qualifying for the event as they did 4 years in the past in achieving Rugby sevens’ first look at the Games.
Japan has automatically qualified for both competitions for their home Olympics.
Reigning champions Fiji, America, New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina, and Canada, have already guaranteed their spots in some of the 12 groups for the men’s events.
Rio winners Australia, New Zealand, America, Canada, and Brazil, have qualified for the ladies tournament.
The winners from qualifying competitions in Oceania, Africa, and Asia will also function in Japan.
The two runners-up from all of the tournaments will play two 12-group competitions for each men’s and girls’ sides next June for the final places in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Argentina covered five European-based total players; however, they neglected Juan Imhoff from their squad for next weekend’s Rugby Championship match in opposition to New Zealand, the Argentinian Rugby Union announced.
The Argentine governing body has softened regulations on people with contracts outdoor the USA representing the Pumas. Head teach Mario Ledesma picked 4 European-based totally gamers: fly-1/2 Nicolas Sanchez, who’s with Stade Francais, Toulon lower back-rower Facundo Isa, Bordeaux-Begles winger Santiago Cordero, and Saracens prop Juan Figallo. But Ledesma not noted winger Imhoff, 31, whose closing global look came on the 2015 Rugby World Cup and performed for Racing ninety-two in France.
The Tri-Nations is the oldest rugby collection held inside the southern hemisphere, with the primary in shape played between Australia and New Zealand in 1903. South Africa first toured both nations in 1921.
Rugby union became played in the Summer Olympics for the primary time at the 1900 Paris video games in which France gained the first gold medal. The London 1908 Olympics noticed the rugby union once more with the gold going to Australasia. Finally, at the Antwerp games in 1920 and the 1924 Paris video games, both golds went to America. However, rugby union turned into soon removed from the Summer Olympic program. In the Fifties, the concept of a Rugby World Cup was thrown from side to side however met with opposition from most of the unions inside the IRFB. In the 1980s, the belief was inside the air again when the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) and the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) wrote independently to the IRFB in hopes of staging the primary Rugby World Cup event. In 1985 it becomes clear that Australia, New Zealand, and France had favored a world cup. Even the South African delegates voted in favor with the knowledge that the global sports boycott for their apartheid regime might prevent their participation in a world cup. The English and Welsh delegates switched sides, and with 10 votes to six, the IRFB authorized the inaugural cup.
