The Olympics

Dare to believe….

Oh no a rugby player with a Bale haircut. Noooooo

Hmmmm

some win if they do manage it, from my limited experience (like this tourney) got to be fiji eh?

the power and control is awesome in them.

This isn’t looking very good

Jesus. They’re big and they’re rapid.

well deserved gold for fiji! 😆

no shame in silver for britain, great achievement!

Can barely get away from under our posts.

Had to look away… not great boys!

A complete rout

Slaughter

Some pretty basic handling errors? As the commentators have said, keeping hold of the ball would be a start.

Fiji are playing a different sport to GB.

Looking at the positive, Fiji are going to win their first ever medal. A gold one.

On current form it is utterly deserved!

Scarily awesome

Brilliant Fiji

Fiji are awesome. Well done them!

Fiji open their can of whoop-ass in the final..

Taxi for the England team..

James Davies showed that not all Welsman sing during the anthem!

Most 1 sided Olympic final ever? They are scarily impressive though

desperate for a least one try :-s

Jeez that’s a hiding.

Fiji are playing a completely different game

I reckon they let us have that try out of sympathy

wayhay!

Yay!

Taxi for the England team

😆

Are people happy that GB 7’s is losing or cheering for another reason?

Cheering because we actually scored a try

On Ben Ryan -“It was harder when he didn’t get paid the first five months, when he realised the Fiji men’s rugby sevens team couldn’t afford petrol for the team bus or even water to serve during practice. It was hardest in February, when Cyclone Winston unleashed its 295km/h winds on the country, killing 44 people, causing nearly $500 million in damage and leaving some of the players homeless.”
-wow.

It all went very quiet in the Pub!

is it over yet 😳 Fiji deserved that 😀

That was the only rugby I’ve watched – quite a battering. Chapeau to USA for going down 24-19 to that outfit.

Sorry to be a grump but there are athletes who’ve trained for a decade for the chance of an Olympic medal and we have a 7’s team who came together a few months ago who now have Rio Silver. Have to say thats a bit of a joke.

Training or not, their genetic advantage was clear – GB looked like schoolboys and the Fijians snatched the ball from them like professional bullies. Awesome brutes.

One wonders why Fiji can no longer mount a strong challenge in 15s. I’d imagine with the right backing they could easily be as awesome as the Kiwis.
I guess the lack of additional defensive line players is what plays into thier hands best in 7s. That and the lack of now largely pointless constant scrummaging.

wrecker – Member
Are people happy that GB 7’s is losing or cheering for another reason?

not happy no, tbh, I’ve no allegiance to GB in the slightest(or any team for that matter), it was just that much of a skelping, GB deserved a wee sympathy cheer! 😆

jambalaya – Member
That was the only rugby I’ve watched – quite a battering. Chapeau to USA for going down 24-19 to that outfit.

Sorry to be a grump but there are athletes who’ve trained for a decade for the chance of an Olympic medal and we have a 7’s team who came together a few months ago who now have Rio Silver. Have to say thats a bit of a joke.nonsense.

Sadly two more ‘drugs’ expulsions overnight. A bulgarian runner for EPO (although b sample still TBC) and bizarrely, a Kenyan coach for impersonating an athlete. Apparently he ‘borrowed’ a pass so he could get a free breakfast, and while doing so was stopped for a random drugs test. Which he promptly took.

A weird set of circumstances for sure, I know we like a good chance to speculate on here so 3,2,1, go! Did he know he was going to be called and so went into hiding?

http://news.sky.com/story/second-kenyan-official-expelled-from-olympics-over-drug-scandal-10532420

Sorry to be a grump but there are athletes who’ve trained for a decade for the chance of an Olympic medal and we have a 7’s team who came together a few months ago who now have Rio Silver. Have to say thats a bit of a joke.

So taking the Englandv7’s teamband adding a few others means thevplayers havent been training like pro athletes?

Did he know he was going to be called and so went into hiding?

There’s this bit…

Ferguson is completely confused as to why he would do this but the good news is that he found out straight away and went to the drug-tester and gave them blood and urine samples

While we’re on, who thinks the team cycling sprint should only give out one medal instead of three? After all, only one cyclist does the whole race!