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- 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
Fiji win men’s title for third time, while Australia’s women add world crown to Commonwealth Games and World Series victories
Ngarohi McGarvey-Black scores hat-trick as Kiwis end Ireland’s fairy-tale run in Cape Town, with Fiji thrashing Australia to set up seismic Sunday night showdown for Melrose Cup.
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.
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.
‘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.
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.
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.
Hong Kong Rugby Union and World Rugby mutually agree postponement from April to November, similar to this year’s Sevens, which was ultimately cancelled.
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.
Two-time World Cup winner Tyla Nathan-Wong eyes gold at the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after a scintillating World Sevens Series season.
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.
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.
Hong Kong Rugby Union says it is not practical to host two major tournaments in the same year as World Rugby hails record interest
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.
Rowan Varty is determined to return with a souvenir from his first trip to Russia - in the form of a trophy for Hong Kong.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Top International Rugby Board official Bernard Lapasset expressed dismay at China's failure to qualify for the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Moscow and promised to support the mainland as they look ahead to the 2016 Olympics, when sevens will be a medal sport for the first time.
To Russia with love - that's where Hong Kong are heading after they qualified for next year's Rugby World Cup Sevens by finishing in the top three in the fourth and final leg of the HSBC Asian Sevens Series.
