SAINT-DENIS, France -- In a seven-minute clinic, Antoine Dupont scored two tries and created another to deliver a coveted gold medal for France on Saturday and end two-time champion Fiji's Olympic ...
France has its first gold medal of the 2024 Olympics in Paris. The home team took gold in Rugby Sevens, handing Fiji its first-ever Olympic loss in a title game since the sport entered the Olympics in ...
Fiji conquered New Zealand 27-12 in the final of the Tokyo Olympics men's rugby tournament, repeating as gold medalists in a match that featured the two best teams in the world. Fiji, a island nation ...
There are three nations that have won a single gold medal, and no other medal of any kind, in the history of the summer Olympics. Interestingly, all three golds came at the 2016 Games in Brazil, where ...
Fiji took home a gold medal in rugby sevens at the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday, and fans in their home country technically should not have taken to the streets to celebrate. Many of them didn’t care.
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 ...
Emerging gingerly from their homes in a nation under curfew, Fijians cheered, sang hymns and danced in the streets Wednesday to celebrate the victory of their rugby sevens team at the Tokyo Olympics.