Listed below are seven gamers to look at on the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 rugby sevens

The Olympic Video games Paris 2024 will formally start on Friday twenty sixth July with the opening ceremony on the River Seine. Nevertheless, on Wednesday twenty fourth July, the primary occasion will kick off – the rugby sevens.

The boys’s and ladies’s competitors will happen within the Stade de France from Wednesday twenty fourth to Tuesday thirtieth earlier than being reworked for the athletics later within the Video games.

24 group, 12 males’s and 12 girls’s, will compete for gold with the lads’s competitors being the primary medals awarded at Paris 2024. This would be the third Video games to function rugby sevens with the game having debuted at Rio 2016.

Fiji are the present defending champions of the lads’s occasion, having retained their title from Rio at Tokyo 2020. For the ladies, New Zealand are present gold medalists with Australia having gained the inaugural title at Rio 2016.

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For the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games, dwelling aspect France enter as males’s favourites due to successful the latest HSBC SVNS Grand Remaining in Madrid. They’ll face powerful competitors from Argentina, who gained three consecutive legs of the HSBC SVNS collection, and Fiji who’ve an ideal report on the Olympic Video games thus far.

Within the girls’s competitors, all indicators level in the direction of a shootout between New Zealand and Australia though Eire, France and the USA will fancy their probabilities at taking dwelling a medal and probably sneaking right into a remaining.

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As is the case at any time when he performs, all eyes shall be on Toulouse and France star scrum-half Antoine Dupont to convey dwelling a house gold within the males’s competitors and light-weight up the competitors nonetheless the raft of expertise residing inside the Sevens system is huge, with a few of the finest athletes in rugby set to take centre stage over the following week.

With that, we’ve taken a take a look at seven celebrity gamers you must being making a be aware to look at on the Olympic Video games Paris 2024…

Seven rugby gamers to look at on the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 rugby sevens

1. Maddison Levi, Australia

Maddison Levi on the HSBC SVNS Madrid (Picture by OSCAR DEL POZO/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)

The deadliest try-scorer in all of rugby, no matter format or code. Australia’s Maddison Levi is a phenomenon and needs to be a family title for all rugby followers.

This season she scored a record-breaking 65 tries on the HSBC SVNS circuit, a report she had set herself simply the season earlier than. Tall, highly effective, quick, Levi will typically pop up on the tip of a 3rd or fourth section, profiting from stretched, drained defences. As soon as she will get by a half hole, seldom is she ever caught.

Solely 22-years-old, there may be little doubt that this try-scoring flood will proceed so if you wish to watch tries in Paris, be sure that to tune in for Levi.

2. Terry Kennedy, Eire

Terry Kennedy in the course of the Crew Eire Paris 2024 group announcement. (Picture By David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile by way of Getty Pictures)

Eire’s Terry Kennedy might be one of many smartest rugby sevens gamers on the earth. He’s not the quickest or strongest, nor does he have a killer sidestep that may beat any defender.

As an alternative, Kennedy depends off of pitch excellent sport administration and studying, making certain he pops up in the appropriate place at virtually each event. It’s what result in hime being HSBC SVNS high attempt scorer this season and a earlier World Rugby World Sevens Participant of the Yr.

The conductor of a strong group that usually proves extremely powerful to beat, Kennedy shall be hoping to outwit the opposition and steer Eire into medal rivalry.

3. Ilona Maher, USA

Ilona Maher on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Video games. (Picture by Dan Mullan/Getty Pictures)

Utter field workplace on and off the pitch, when Ilona Maher is on the sphere, the sport is usually orbiting round her affect.

In each assault and defence, Maher is thought for monster hits that may shift your complete momentum of a sport. Her fellow teammates feed off of her capability to attract a number of defenders into contact whereas her aggressive defence wins turnovers.

The USA are one in all a number of girls’s group behind New Zealand and Australia who shall be hoping to take dwelling a medal and if they’re, you’ll assume Maher shall be an awesome affect on that occuring.

4. Marcos Moneta, Argentina

Marcos Moneta at HSBC SVNS Perth. (Picture by Will Russell/Getty Pictures)

A former World Rugby Sevens Gamers of the Yr, Marcos Moneta is one piece of the Argentinian rugby sevens puzzle that lit up the HSBC SVNS collection this yr. Three legs in a row, the Argentinians appeared an unstoppable drive at instances.

Moneta is Argentina’s hazard man, drifting across the exterior edges and wing, capitalising on defensive errors along with his electrifying tempo. Usually, when the sport seems lifeless, up pops Moneta with a half break that injects the sport again into life.

Even be on the look out for the present World Rugby Participant of the Yr Rodrigo Isgro – ought to he keep away from suspension – and Lucho Gonzalez, the one they name the Nightmare Puma – each fan favourites.

5. Portia Woodman-Wickliffe, New Zealand

Portia Woodman-Wickliffe at HSBC SVNS Madrid (Getty Pictures)

Certainly one of, if the best to ever do it, Portia Woodman-Wickliffe is a legend of not solely New Zealand rugby however world rugby.

A cross-format star is a present Olympic gold medalist, has gained the 15s Rugby World Cup and 7s Rugby World Cup twice, is high attempt scorer in each competitions and has a report 256 tries in Sevens collection historical past too. For deadliest finisher in SVNS, it’s a straight shootout between Woodman-Wickliffe and Levi.

Woodman-Wickliffe introduced she shall be retiring after these Video games so count on her to do all she presumably can to exit on a excessive.

6. Rosko Specman, South Africa

Rosko Specman after victory on the HSBC SVNS Dubai. (Picture by Martin Dokoupil/Getty Pictures)

Image your archetypal sevens participant and you’ll in all probability get someone like South Africa’s Rosko Specman. Deft palms, unimaginable acceleration and the flexibility to sidestep an opponent in a cellphone field.

Now 35, you’ll assume Specman’s finest days have been previous him but his return the the Blitzbok sevens fold in 2024 contributed to South Africa’s win in Dubai and their Olympic qualification by the repechage final month.

For those who get pleasure from enjoyable rugby, watch the person they name Specmagic in Paris this summer time.

7. Megan Jones, Crew GB

Megan Jones on the HSBC Canada Rugby Sevens (Picture by Don MacKinnon / AFP) (Picture by DON MACKINNON/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)

For Crew GB followers, hopes of a medal shall be held by the ladies’s group in Paris after the lads’s aspect did not qualify eventually month’s repechage, shedding to South Africa.

Just like the USA, Eire and France, Crew GB girls’s aspect shall be among the many outsiders hoping to tackle Australia and New Zealand for the medals. The aspect has been bolstered by the return of Ellie Kildunne, recent from Six Nations domination, and Meg Jones.

Jones is a implausible ballplayer who, heading to her third Olympic video games, shall be hopeful of lastly bagging a medal.

Which rugby gamers are you wanting ahead to watching on the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 rugby sevens?

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