Kenya rugby sevens playes Humphery Kayange (with the ball) with his teammates Oscar ouma (left) and Willie Ambaka lines up the ball in training session ahead of Rio Olympics 2016 at Nandi Bears Club ...

Rugby debuted as an Olympic sport at the 1900 Paris Olympics, but was dropped as an Olympic sport after the 1924 Paris Olympic games. In 2016 at the Rio de Janeiro Games, a variation of the sport, ...

SAINT-DENIS, France — Two Olympic gold medals and a silver around her neck, draped in a flag, Portia Woodman-Wickliffe walked away from the field at the Paris Games content with her rugby sevens ...

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) The road to Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Olympic debut of rugby sevens took a lively detour on the weekend to the home of Scottish football's Rangers. It even declared a ...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - All Blacks loose forward Liam Messam, who helped drive New Zealand to Commonwealth Games gold in Delhi in 2010, is back in the nation's rugby sevens squad after nearly six years ...

July 19 (Reuters) - Tom Mitchell and Emily Scarratt will captain the British men's and women's rugby sevens teams at next month's Rio Games after they were among the 24 players named in the squad by ...

Australia cruised to victory over Tonga in the final of the Oceania Rugby Sevens Championship in Auckland to book their place at next year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. While all eight competing ...

(Reuters) - Spain's women matched their men by securing the final spot in the field for the inaugural rugby sevens competition at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics by winning the final repechage round in ...

Watching rugby for the first time as an American can feel like looking in a funhouse mirror, but the United States Women's Rugby Sevens team is on the hunt for a medal with two games left in their ...

Alex Sedrick's breakaway gave the U.S. the last-second lead—and the bronze medal. / Alex Ho/ISI Photos/Getty Images SAINT-DENIS, France — For the plucky, talented, unexpected force that is the U.S.

For the first time ever, the New York City area will play host to the best world rugby sevens has to offer. AmNewYork has learned that World Rugby and TEG Rugby Live are bringing the HSBC SVNS Series ...