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The World Series Sevens will make its return to Singapore and with it two of the best teams in the world, Fiji and New Zealand, will make their first appearance in 2022.
South Africa eye Olympic sevens gold at end of long tunnel
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25/05/2021 - 03:14 South Africa rugby sevens coach Neil Powell shares a lighter moment with his squad during a training sesson in Stellenbosch. Rodger BOSCH AFP 4 min
Stellenbosch (South Africa) (AFP)
South African rugby sevens coach Neil Powell sometimes had to answer the question What for? as he drove his players through strenuous conditioning and skills training sessions during a long, coronavirus-enforced break from competitive action.
Now there is a goal in sight –- the Tokyo Olympic Games, where the Springbok sevens team, the Blitzboks, will be realistic medal contenders in the July 26-31 tournament.
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New Zealand Rugby has its annual meeting on Thursday, with the deal to be voted on then. A California-based private equity firm, in 2019 Silver Lake acquired a 10 percent stake in City Football Group (CFG), which owns reigning English Premier League champions Manchester City and teams in the United States, Australia and China. An investment in one of the most famous brands in world sport would expand the buyout giant s US$75 billion (NZ$104b) portfolio of companies, most of which are technology and sports venues and teams, according to its website. Silver Lake has been in the news this week as part of the European Super League crisis in which 12 European football clubs tried to set up an alternative competition to the Champions League, before it fell apart from public opposition.