Tokyo Olympics: Great Britain sevens plans 'a joke' - Dan Bibby

Tokyo Olympics: Great Britain sevens plans 'a joke' - Dan Bibby

By Semi Turaga
Thursday 29/07/2021
[image: BBC]

Great Britain 7s star Dan Bibby has described a planned future sevens programme in the UK as "a joke" after the team missed out on a medal in Tokyo.

Great Britain lost 17-12 to a fired-up Argentina in the bronze match.

BBC News reports the team's central contracts ended in August as the UK's Rugby Football Union cut costs amid a COVID funding squeeze.

Bibby says they have been offered eight contracts and eight contracts is ridiculous.

He says they are being asked to play against a team like New Zealand with eight players on not much more than minimum wage.

Bibby adds it is impossible.

He says if the UK's Rugby Football Union are not going to fund it they have to be grown-up about it and come out and say it.

The English, Welsh and Scottish unions all said in December that they were reviewing their sevens set-up for after the Olympics.

Rugby sevens is on the Commonwealth Games programme for Birmingham 2022, where the teams will compete separately instead of as Great Britain.

[Source: BBC]

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