Wales winger Jasmine Joyce is ready to turn into the primary British rugby participant to look at three Olympic Video games after being included in Staff GB’s sevens squad for Paris 2024.
Joyce, 28, who helped Britain end fourth at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, and Scotland centre Lisa Thomson are the one non-English gamers chosen in a 12-strong squad. Joyce’s Wales team-mate Kayleigh Powell has been named as one in every of two reserves, alongside Abi Burton.
Thomson, plus England pair Meg Jones and Emma Uren, will compete at their second Olympics, whereas 2024 Six Nations main try-scorer Ellie Kildunne has additionally been included.
Head coach Ciaran Beattie mentioned: “As you may think, it was extraordinarily troublesome to call 14 at this stage, as there are such a lot of wonderful gamers who’ve carried out on the World Rugby sevens stage to safe qualification for these Olympic Video games.
“We wish to be aggressive in Paris and method every match as one that may be gained, with the last word purpose of medalling, on the identical time being respectful of the massive high quality of different groups.”
Staff GB misplaced out to Canada and Fiji respectively within the bronze-medal matches in Rio and Tokyo.
They certified for Paris 2024 in June final yr by successful gold on the European Video games in Krakow, beating hosts Poland 33-0 within the closing.
Staff GB chef de mission Mark England mentioned: “It was thrilling to look at the ladies’s crew qualify for the Paris Video games as Staff GB on the Krakow European Video games final summer season.
“I do know that the choice course of for the squad was extraordinarily aggressive, and I’m delighted to welcome again Olympians Jasmine, Lisa, Emma and Meg, together with eight Olympic debutants.”
The GB males’s crew should win gold on the Olympic repechage event in Monaco this weekend to safe their place in Paris after shedding to Eire within the European Video games closing final summer season.
England added: “We hope the ladies’s crew will probably be joined in Paris by the lads’s rugby sevens crew and need them nicely on the World Rugby Sevens Repechage event in Monaco.”
Ladies’s squad: Amy Wilson Hardy, Ellie Boatman, Ellie Kildunne, Emma Uren, Grace Crompton, Heather Cowell, Isla Norman-Bell, Jade Shekells, Jasmine Joyce, Lauren Torley, Lisa Thomson, Meg Jones. Reserves: Abi Burton, Kayleigh Powell.
