Even winning the major prize of the day did nothing to assuage John Moore's disappointment at being at Sha Tin yesterday instead of at the Hong Kong Stadium for the Hong Kong Sevens, and he used...
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26 Mar 2012
Professor Judith Mackay, OBE (and ardent Sevens fan), does not look like your average radical. She has been an anti-smoking activist and was offered 24-hour protection by the Hong Kong police due...
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25 Mar 2012
Some Tagalog words have made their mark in the English language, one of the more notable ones being 'boondocks' (bundok in the original), which means a place far from civilisation, a word...
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25 Mar 2012
'I've lost my voice plenty of times and had several cases of 'Wan Chai throat', the affliction you get from too many late nights in the bars after the stadium. In my worst case all I could manage...
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23 Mar 2012
'Everybody likes Chumbawamba, but when it gets to the end of the Sevens and it gets dark my favourite musical moment has to be the operatic strains of Andrea Bocelli singing Con te Partiro.
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7 Feb 2012
The Hong Kong Sevens is still more than a month away, but excitement is already mounting. The three-day rugby extravaganza-cum-carnival takes place from March 23 to 25 at the Hong Kong Stadium....
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Save any tears you might want to shed for the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens, whose organisers have cut the number of public tickets available for one of the 'world's 10 best sporting events' (as a letter...
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At least 50 rugby fans were refused entry to the Hong Kong Sevens last night after the tickets they bought over the internet proved to be fake.
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It might be tradition to boo them every year, but Australians are starting to make their presence felt in Hong Kong off the pitch. It is estimated that Hong Kong is home to 60,000 Australian...
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The rugby tribe went loud and proud in the South Stand. 'We're all just part of the great tribe that is rugby,' said Jordan Smiler, caught with some mates from the Penguins tens team mingling...
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'The Welsh are not quite as big on self expression as the Scots or the Irish, but when we're winning, we sure like to tell people about it,' said one Welsh wag this week.
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The Sevens is an annual pilgrimage for former England and Bath prop Gareth Chilcott.
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