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Hong Kong Sevens 2024: party starts as rugby fans arrive from around the world
While overseas fans are visiting for the Sevens, they also plan to ‘enjoy life in Hong Kong, go sightseeing and explore the city’.
While overseas fans are visiting for the Sevens, they also plan to ‘enjoy life in Hong Kong, go sightseeing and explore the city’
Wan Chai pubs and bars operators are also celebrating an uptick in business
5 Apr 2024 - 9:17AM
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World Cup Sevens: Australia and Fiji crowned world champions
12 Sep 2022 - 7:10AM
World Cup Sevens: Fiji to face New Zealand in final
11 Sep 2022 - 8:14PM
UK Super Sevens Series: Hong Kong aiming even higher at London Irish
Hong Kong coaches rotate men’s and women’s squads for 2nd round of sevens series as they try to go one better after losing their cup finals last time out.
26 May 2022 - 8:45PM
HK Sevens’ return gets home team firing as they vow to shed ‘nearly men’ tag
Max Woodward leads revived men’s squad into 6-week trip to Europe for training and tournaments ahead of World Cup Sevens, Asian Games and city’s own showpiece.
4 May 2022 - 7:12PM
How Hong Kong rugby star Herbert went from reject to game-changer
‘I had to pull myself together and say this is what I want to do,’ recalls Liam Herbert, who is becoming the future of Hong Kong rugby after failing to make the grade at Aston Villa.
27 Oct 2021 - 10:54PM
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Government quarantine exemption ‘best for the sport’, says rugby star
Hong Kong Sevens star player Liam Herbert says ‘I know we look like rebels’ but insists next month’s matches are ‘our best shot’ of qualifying for 2022 World Cup.
14 Oct 2021 - 9:26PM
Emotional Fiji win second consecutive Olympic rugby gold
Gareth Baber’s men capture the country’s second-ever Olympic Games medal, with captain Jerry Tuwai & Co in tears after spending more than 18 months outside of Fiji.
28 Jul 2021 - 6:49PM
Hong Kong Sevens postponed again, this time to November 2021
Hong Kong Rugby Union and World Rugby mutually agree postponement from April to November, similar to this year’s Sevens, which was ultimately cancelled.
18 Dec 2020 - 8:53AM
Hong Kong men’s rugby braces for tight Premiership season
Another treble for Football Club? Redemption for Tigers? We breakdown all six teams in a wide-open Premiership as HKRU’s Leigh Jones eyes World Cup squad.
6 Nov 2020 - 10:46PM
New Zealand’s ‘extra year to fine-tune’ Tokyo 2020 gold – Nathan-Wong
Two-time World Cup winner Tyla Nathan-Wong eyes gold at the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after a scintillating World Sevens Series season.
31 Oct 2020 - 8:00AM
How New Zealand rugby’s Nathan-Wong tackled sexism, racism and sizeism
Being ‘small, female and part-Chinese’ is not related to ‘what I bring to the rugby field’, says Black Ferns’ first 1,000-pointer and two-time World Cup winner Tyla Nathan-Wong.
28 Oct 2020 - 10:15PM
HKRU counts cost of canned Sevens in HK$150 million hammer blow
Hong Kong Rugby Union chief executive Robbie McRobbie says ‘fragility’ of its commercial model exposed as the Sevens accounts for 95 per cent of revenue.
30 Jul 2020 - 10:32PM
India, Qatar want to host 2022 World Cup Sevens, but no Hong Kong
Hong Kong Rugby Union says it is not practical to host two major tournaments in the same year as World Rugby hails record interest
7 May 2019 - 10:01PM
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Serevi backs Fiji coach Baber and the Welshman can thank Hong Kong
6 Aug 2018 - 3:28PM
Samoa Sevens player charged with assault at World Cup
25 Jul 2018 - 5:59PM
New Zealand’s spine-tingling haka crowns World Cup Sevens glory
23 Jul 2018 - 11:39AM
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Rugby World Cup Sevens highlights: Fiji rampant on day two
22 Jul 2018 - 8:47PM
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Hong Kong show ‘attitude’ to brush aside Jamaica at Sevens World Cup
22 Jul 2018 - 11:15PM
Watch: Rugby World Cup Sevens highlights
22 Jul 2018 - 12:04PM
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Slow going at old Kai Tak keeps World Cup dream grounded
Kai Tak stadium will not be ready before 2018, and that’s a crying shame. Otherwise Hong Kong would have been able to put on the Hong Kong Sevens and host the Rugby World Cup Sevens later that same year.
7 Mar 2014 - 4:44PM
Hosting World Cup Sevens in 2018 ‘an insurance policy’, says Gregory
Hong Kong has bid to host the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens in a move described as an "insurance policy" by leading official Trevor Gregory.
6 Mar 2014 - 9:46PM
Rowan Varty out to grab the silverware for Hong Kong
Rowan Varty is determined to return with a souvenir from his first trip to Russia - in the form of a trophy for Hong Kong.
21 Feb 2014 - 7:17PM
Hardworking Hong Kong face more new challenges
Jamie Hood returns to a Hong Kong team which will face the pressure of finishing as the top Asian side at the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Moscow, their final challenge in a long and gruelling season - but the break will be shortlived.
13 Feb 2014 - 12:12AM
Hong Kong rules out bid to host World Cup Sevens in 2018
Hong Kong has ruled itself out of bidding to host the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens, saying it would present "a difficult challenge" to host two international tournaments that year - the Hong Kong Sevens being the other - in the city.
13 Feb 2014 - 1:14AM
World Cup and Olympics can exist together, says IRB
There is room for both the Olympics and the World Cup Sevens, with Singapore emerging as a possible venue for the next edition in 2018, top IRB official Brett Gosper said yesterday.
7 Apr 2014 - 6:51PM
Hong Kong handed tough draw for World Cup Sevens
Hong Kong were brought down to earth - soon after a cosmonaut up in the heavens had read a message for the VIP audience before yesterday's Rugby World Cup Sevens draw in Moscow - as they were pooled with England, Argentina and Portugal in what looks to be a tough group in the preliminary round of the June showpiece.
13 Feb 2014 - 1:16AM
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Sevens World Cup may continue after it becomes Olympic sport
The International Rugby Board will look at keeping the World Cup Sevens and playing it between Olympic cycles following the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro when sevens makes its debut as a medal sport. The IRB had previously maintained that the Moscow World Cup would be the last one now that sevens has been included in the Olympics.
13 Feb 2014 - 1:04AM
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