The competition will be held in rugby sevens format among men and women.
Competition winners
| Year | Place carrying out |
The final | Match for 3rd place | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st place | Check | 2nd place | 3rd place | Check | 4th place | ||
| Paris | France |
27: 17 | Germany |
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| 27: 8 | Great Britain |
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| London | Australasia |
32: 3 | Great Britain |
- | - | - | |
| Brussels | USA |
8: 0 | France |
- | - | - | |
| Paris | USA |
France |
Romania |
- | - | ||
Medal standings
| Total number of medals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Place | A country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 |
USA || style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 2 || style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 0 || style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 0 || 2 |
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| 2 |
France || style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 1 || style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 2 || style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 0 || 3 |
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| 3 |
Australasia || style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 1 || style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 0 || style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 0 || 1 |
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| 4 |
UK || style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 0 || style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 2 || style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 0 || 2 |
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| 5 |
Germany || style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 0 || style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 1 || style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 0 || 1 |
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| 6 |
Romania || style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 0 || style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 0 || style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 1 || 1 |
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Countries
| Countries | 1904 | 1912 | Years | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Australasia || || ||bgcolor="gold"|1 || || || ||1 |
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UK ||bgcolor="silver"|2 || ||bgcolor="silver"|2 || || || ||2 |
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Germany ||bgcolor="silver"|2 || || || || || ||1 |
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Romania || || || || || ||bgcolor="cc9966"|3 ||1 |
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USA || || || || ||bgcolor="gold"|1 ||bgcolor="gold"|1 ||2 |
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France ||bgcolor="gold"|1 || || || ||bgcolor="silver"|2 ||bgcolor="silver"|2 ||3 |
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| Total countries: 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
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The very thing that tormented him before, what he was constantly looking for, the purpose of life, now did not exist for him. It was no coincidence that this sought-after goal of life did not exist for him at the present moment, but he felt that it did not and could not exist. And it was this lack of purpose that gave him that complete, joyful consciousness of freedom, which at that time constituted his happiness.He could not have a goal, because he now had faith - not faith in some rules, or words, or thoughts, but faith in a living, always felt God. Previously, he sought it for the purposes that he set for himself. This search for a goal was only a search for God; and suddenly he learned in his captivity, not in words, not by reasoning, but by direct feeling, what his nanny had told him long ago: that God is here, here, everywhere. In captivity, he learned that God in Karataev is greater, infinite and incomprehensible than in the Architect of the universe recognized by the Freemasons. He experienced the feeling of a man who had found what he was looking for under his feet, while he strained his eyesight, looking far away from himself. All his life he had been looking somewhere, over the heads of the people around him, but he should have not strained his eyes, but only looked in front of him.
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President of the International Union rugby(IRB) Bernard Lapasse says he expects rugby sevens to be officially included in the 2016 Olympics.
According to Lapasse, over the past two years he has repeatedly met with representatives of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and national Olympic committees, talking about this sport and the prospects for its development. The IOC Executive Committee will select two out of seven sports on August 13 in Berlin, which will be finally approved at the IOC session on October 6 in Copenhagen.
“Now we are actually reaching the finish line. And we really hope that rugby-7 will be one of the two selected sports,” he said, summing up the work of the 82nd General Assembly of the European Rugby Association FIRA-AER in Moscow, noting that in Russia the candidacy of “rugby receives support from all kinds of sports."
Rugby 7's competitors in the fight for inclusion in the 2016 Games program are golf, roller skating, baseball, softball, squash and karate. Lapasse is confident that there are no clear favorites among the contenders for Olympic status.
“Maybe we are a more universal sport than others, maybe we are more preferable in some other aspects. But there are no clear rules and criteria so that the choice in favor of one sport or another can be predicted in advance. But on our side there are 116 national federations that want to express the same message - to become an Olympic sport,” Lapasse emphasized, answering a question from RIA Novosti.
The head of the IRB believes that rugby sevens, “a young, dynamic and attractive sport that is actively developing and arouses considerable spectator interest around the world,” has all the components necessary to be included in the Olympic program.
“We have a significant sports and cultural component, since rugby is played all over the world, a significant economic background, since many television channels broadcast rugby matches and tournaments, and a huge army of fans who follow their teams from continent to continent,” he said.
At the FIRA-AER General Assembly in Moscow, the President of the Russian Rugby Union (RUR) and Vice-President of FIRA-AER Vyacheslav Kopyev was included in the FIRA-AER Executive Committee, and British specialist Thomas Howard, who is the Executive Vice-President of the Rugby Union, headed the created rugby commission -7.
Rugby was included in the Olympic program of four Games - in 1900, 1908, 1920 and 1924. However, then this sport lost its Olympic status due to the absence of the International Rugby Federation and the impossibility of supervising national divisions and holding international competitions.
Rugby sevens will be featured as a demonstration sport at the London 2012 Games.
Aikido, chess, bandy, kickboxing, rugby, mountaineering, combat sambo, water skiing, sumo. What does this list of sports have in common? All of them belong to non-Olympic sports. Perhaps if they were included in the Olympic Games, the Olympics would become even more popular.
Have you ever wondered why non-Olympic sports are not included in the Olympics?
Non-Olympic sports - rugby
The Olympic Games have team sports such as football, basketball or hockey. Rugby is also a team sport, but for some reason it is classified as a non-Olympic sports discipline. And this is not at all due to the fact that rugby is not as popular in the world as football.
In England, Scotland, Ireland, France, and South Africa, this sport attracts full stadiums. So why is it not an Olympic sport? The fact is that the duration of the Summer Olympics is no more than 15 days.
It takes many more days to play out a rugby championship. This is mainly due to the fact that rugby is considered a contact sport, therefore, players expend a lot of energy and need time to rest.
Rugby is a game in which you can’t skimp, the athletes give it their all. Consequently, it takes them many more days to recover after a match than football players.
Rugby is the national sport of England. Previously, we talked about national sports in more detail.
Non-Olympic sports - bandy
Bandy, or bandy as this sport is commonly called, is played by two teams of 10 players. Athletes move on ice on skates.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has long recognized bandy as an Olympic sport, and was even going to include this discipline in the 2018 Winter Olympics, but at the last moment they decided to change their decision.
Non-Olympic sports - chess
The list of non-Olympic sports can be continued with chess. They have long outgrown the status of ordinary board games. Every year, championships are held in this sport and sports categories are assigned. So why is chess still not included in the Olympic program?
As for the Winter Olympics, the IOC noted that their program includes only those sports that are held on ice or snow.
Increasingly Popular Non-Olympic Sports
In addition to the sports that we wrote about above, the Olympic sports program also does not include:
- Acrobatic rock and roll;
- American football;
- Armwrestling;
- Body-building;
- Bowling;
- Billiard sport;
- Weight-lifting;
- Gorodkov sports;
- Jujutsu;
- Kyokushin karate;
- JKS Karate;
- Skittles;
- Kickboxing WAKO;
- Kickboxing WPKA;
- Cossack duel;
- Powerlifting;
- Paintball;
- Polyathlon;
- Hand-to-hand combat;
- Fishing sport;
- Rock climbing;
- Sports aerobics;
- Sports acrobatics;
- Orienteering;
- Dance Sport;
- Speleology;
- Sports tourism;
- Sports bridge;
- Crossbow shooting;
- Ski-l;
- Thai boxing Muay Thai;
- Taekwondo (ITF);
- Universal fight;
- Fitness;
- Futsal;
- Checkers;
- Free fight;
- Tug of war;
- Pankration;
- Aesthetic gymnastics;
- Cheerleading;
- Belt wrestling;
- Squash;
- Bogatyr all-around;
- Beach handball;
- Beach Soccer;
- Streetball;
- Dance sport;
- Wakeboarding;
- Sporting;
- Mini golf;
- Jumping on an acrobatic track;
- Horting;
- Jetski;
- Aeromodelling sport;
- Automotive sports;
- Automotive sports;
- Karting;
- Airplane sports;
- Marine all-around;
- Motorcycle sport;
- Parachuting;
- Underwater sports;
- Radiosport;
- Sports with dogs.
Who knows, perhaps in the near future the Olympic Committee will consider options with non-Olympic sports and include them in the main program.
After almost a century, rugby has returned to the list of Olympic sports. What changes have happened after 92 years and what will it look like in Rio now?
How it all began.
The history of the oval ball game and the Olympic Games is quite complex and simple at the same time. It’s difficult because, having been an Olympic sport for 24 years, after that rugby said goodbye to such an honorable status for 92 long years. And there was no way to get it back. And it never fully returned. Why exactly – more on that a little later.
The story is simple precisely because it is not too rich and intense - this is only the fifth Rugby Games in 116 years. The first Olympic rugby match took place in 1900 in Paris, in which the national teams of France and Germany met (27:17), and in total... three teams took part in the tournament. Team Great Britain was third. Then, in a rather intricate way, the “gold” went to the hosts, who won two of their matches, while the opponents had only one each. For a banal reason – there wasn’t enough time. History is silent about how this could have happened, but all that is known is that the French played their second match on the last day of the competition, after which the teams of Great Britain and Germany were supposed to play, but the match was never played.
Thus, the French became the first winners of the Olympic Games in rugby.
The final match of the Olympics between the US and French teams. 1924.
In subsequent years, rugby was either even more modestly represented or not represented at all. Thus, in two tournaments (1904 and 1912), not a single rugby team took part in the Games, and in 1908 and 1920, two teams played only one match, which was essentially the final.
For example, in 1908, an outlandish team became the Olympic champion Australasia, consisting of the Australian and New Zealand Olympic teams. The thing is that at that time the New Zealanders did not have their own Olympic Committee and this did not give them the right to compete at the Olympics. However, having united with their neighbors, the athletes won a total of five medals (1 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze), and the most honorable of them was won by the rugby team. These were the only Games in which Australasia took part. Later, in 1911, New Zealand already acquired its own Olympic Committee and could continue to compete under its own flag.
In 1924, three rugby teams again came to the Olympic Games. It is clear that each team was guaranteed a medal, and the only question was who would get which. As a result of the drawing, the US team, which was then made up of American football players, won gold. In the final they beat the French (17:3). By the way, it is American rugby players who are the most titled at the Olympic Games - they have two victories to their credit.
It is interesting that the third team that participated in the Games at that time was the national team... of Romania. “Oaks” lost both matches, which, however, did not prevent them from receiving Olympic bronze.
What is Olympic rugby now?
With such meager historical baggage, rugby, after 92 years of Olympic stagnation, has come to 2016, where it will finally be a full-fledged participant in the Games. The reason for such a long absence of rugby from the Olympic program was banal - until the 90s of the last century, rugby did not have a single international federation. However, with the advent of the IRB (later renamed World Rugby), the prospects for rugby's return to the Olympics became brighter. One of the significant contributions to the inclusion of rugby in the list of Olympic sports was made by an Argentinean Agustin Pichot- Former Argentina national team player and current vice-president of World Rugby. By some accounts he is now the most powerful man in rugby.
Agustin Pichot is one of the main initiators of the return of rugby to the Olympic Games system
True, it was not the same “classical” rugby (also known as rugby-15) that was brought back to the Olympics, but its spin-off form - rugby-7. What is it?
Everything is very simple. It is not difficult to distinguish rugby sevens from “classics” - firstly, sevens is traditionally a more dynamic sport, it requires more running, dexterous feints and less tactical refinements. And secondly, the number 7 in the name was chosen for a reason - this is exactly how many rugby players should be on the field from each team, and one half lasts seven minutes... Teams play two halves with a minute break and as a result, a full match takes only 15 minutes of “clean” time.
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About the format.
The inclusion of rugby sevens in the Olympic sports became possible precisely because of such a simplified form of the game, which can easily fit into the time frame of the Olympic Games. With 'classic' rugby matches lasting 80 minutes it might be a little more difficult. But be that as it may, for the old new Olympic sport, just getting on the list of the Games is already a victory.
Due to the transience and short duration of rugby sevens, a total of three days will be enough to determine the winner. It would seem that there is nothing surprising here, because in the 20th century there was approximately the same situation, but now instead of a couple of teams, 12 teams, divided into three groups, will fight for the title of Olympic champion. Based on the results of the group round, the first two teams from each group (six in total), as well as two more that took third place with the best results, advance to the quarter finals. Next are the semi-finals and the final.
The same format will be in the women's part of the competition. By the way, representatives of the fairer sex are now playing rugby sevens at the Olympic Games.
Group round (men)
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