HK Sports News

‘World Football’ program replaced its original opening scene of Messi lifting the World Cup trophy with footage of Philipp Lahm.

HONG KONG—Sunday morning (March 29, 2015) at the Hong Kong Sevens begins gently. The crowd is quiet and still dreamy from festivities the night before. The South Stand barely a quarter full. Despite the subdued atmosphere, Sunday Sevens is all about knock-out rugby, and winning finals. At stake today, the honour of qualifying for next year’s Sevens circuit, plus the Cup, Plate, Bowl and Shield in the Main competition, and valuable points towards qualification for Rio in 2016.

HONG KONG—It’s 0830 in the morning and the South Stand is full!! It’s colourful, buzzing and with a carnival atmosphere. There are dogs, frogs, droogs and dwarves and pilots, pirates and pharaohs. There is no other Sevens tournament like it….anywhere.

In the Cup Quarter Finals of the IRB Women’s Sevens World Series in Dubai on Friday Dec 5 Australia swamped Fiji 47-0, Canada beat USA 36-0, France pushed out England with a low scoring 7-5 victory and New Zealand were given a tough match by Russia but edged the game 19-17.