They’re favorites to win sevens gold at the Rio Olympics – and head coach Ben Ryan wants his Fiji players to showcase their “mystical” style of rugby as they pursue a place in the history books. The ...

The island nation of Fiji's first ever Olympic medal is gold thanks to a dominant effort by the country's men's rugby sevens team. The Fijians throttled Great Britain 43-7 in the gold-medal game to ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — They came from a series of tiny specks in the Pacific and completely dominated the world. Fiji’s team won the first ever men’s Olympic rugby sevens tournament Thursday night with a ...

On the morning of October 9, 2009, 89 members of the International Olympic Committee sat in a conference center in Copenhagen. The committee members, who shape policy at the IOC, had come together in ...

Fiji have an Olympic Games gold medal! The feel good gold of Rio 2016 arrived when the Pacific Islanders trounced Great Britain in a brutal display of sevens rugby, delivering a first medal of any hue ...

The members of Fiji’s Olympic men’s rugby sevens team learned the game using plastic bottles, bundled-up shirts and even flip-flops as balls––about as far removed from the sport’s roots in a stuffy ...

Fiji has announced a further day of public holiday after the Pacific island nation’s rugby sevens team won the country’s first Olympic medal. Fiji were crowned the first men’s Olympic sevens champions ...

Large parts of Fiji have come to a standstill to mark the return of the victorious rugby sevens squad from Rio, where they won their country's first ever Olympic gold medal. Thousands of fans lined ...

After 16 appearances in the Olympics, the tiny nation of Fiji has its first medal. And it is gold. The Fiji rugby sevens squad routed Great Britain in the gold medal game on Thursday night, winning 43 ...

Great Britain finished with silver in the inaugural men's rugby sevens as Fiji beat them 43-7 to claim gold - the country's first ever Olympic medal. Pre-tournament favourites Fiji were imperious from ...