Sevens primed for Olympics

Sevens primed for Olympics

9 Dec 2008

Sevens rugby could be included as an Olympic sport at the 2012 London Olympic Games.

International Rugby Board (IRB) Sevens tournament director, Beth Coalter, said the chairperson of the IRB, Bernard Lapasset, was lobbying the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to have Sevens instated as an Olympic sport.

The IRB expects to have an answer from the International Olympics Committee (IOC) by October 9 2009.

“There’s a possibility that we will be able to take part as early as 2012,” Coalter told Die Burger.

“The winners won’t receive medals though, but will play demonstration matches only. If these trials in London are a success, there is a strong possibility that Sevens rugby would be included in the 2016 Olympic Games as an official Olympic sport.

“With Sevens rugby you have two days of extremely exciting action. The big stadium in Beijing often stood empty during this year’s Games. When Sevens rugby was played at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, spectators filled the seats.

“The profile of Sevens rugby would be raised considerably by being part of the Olympics, meaning that participating countries would also receive the support of their governments,” explained Coalter.

Speaking of the World Cup in Dubai (5-7 March 2009), Coalter said: “After the Dubai tournament, we went back to the drawing board to see how we could improve. One change to be implemented is that we will also have 16 women’s teams to go with the 24 men’s teams at the World Cup tournament.”


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  • 501.gunther: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:08 pm

    #466 SpringbokSarah: the eyeliners….thats why the call camels the ships of the desert…

    #481 Sheriff: she enjoys the protection of the senior bloggers? you make her sound like a restaurant in little Italy.

  • 502.SpringbokSarah: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:08 pm

    Now I feel like biltong

  • 503.Pietman: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:09 pm

    #495 SpringbokSarah:
    Ok, I’m home, in the comfort of my own study and the underfloor heating is full blast.
    Get your dad over to talk to us, so he can see for himself that you are in good company.
    I need to have a word with him, anyways, about his buddy Cheeky.

  • 504.Sheriff: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:10 pm

    #498 K9_BaasPatrolliehond:

    So ‘n soet sout smakie, mmm, heerlik …

  • 505.grootblousmile: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:10 pm

    #494 Sheriff:
    #497 Rum And Maple:

    Ek eet die rou deeg……. maak so bol daarvan, gemeng met suiker… en eet dit…… moenie my sê julle het nooit koekiedeeg of beskuitdeeg ge-eet toe julle klein was nie ????!

  • 506.Rum And Maple: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:10 pm

    #499 grootblousmile: My pa was in die weermag en het ‘n bamboes passtok gehad by name “samejoor”

    Die ding is nog by my ma en kan nie vir dit kyk sonder om tranerig te raak nie…

  • 507.K9_BaasPatrolliehond: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:11 pm

    #499 grootblousmile: Hahaha…en hy val daarvoor?

  • 508.SpringbokSarah: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:11 pm

    # gunther: You do realise the camel offers are in Egypt and there is like no desert left in Dubai

  • 509.Sheriff: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:11 pm

    #499 grootblousmile:

    Een net so vir die wis en die onwis

  • 510.K9_BaasPatrolliehond: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:12 pm

    #502 SpringbokSarah: Ur skin dry?

  • 511.Sheriff: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:12 pm

    #500 Rum And Maple:

    Ek vra u mooi, leer my ook hoe om dit te doen …

  • 512.K9_BaasPatrolliehond: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:12 pm

    #506 Rum And Maple: My ma se paplepel se naam was ‘Moeggepraat”.

  • 513.Sheriff: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:13 pm

    # gunther:

    Correct, you have been warned.

  • 514.K9_BaasPatrolliehond: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:13 pm

    #512 K9_BaasPatrolliehond: My pa het my met sy plathand geslaan. Nie gebrand nie…….gat was net dood vir ‘n paar uur.

  • 515.grootblousmile: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:14 pm

    #506 Rum And Maple: Dis juis my pa se Infanterie Leerkollege seremoniële kierie waarvan ek praat…… my Pa was destyds ‘n Offisier in die Infanterie……. toe ek piepklein was.

  • 516.Puma: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:14 pm

    #503 Pietman: Hi Piet. Cant imagine underfloor heating on right now. We are melting down here from the heat. Its been so hot here today.

  • 517.Sheriff: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:14 pm

    #505 grootblousmile:

    Nee ons het, maar die lysie raak al langer by die dag.

    Ek dink jy kort ietsie suur daar…

  • 518.SpringbokSarah: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:15 pm

    #503 Pietman: He’s at work

    #510 K9_BaasPatrolliehond: No, should it be?

  • 519.Nguni Stud: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:15 pm

    In the United States the official reaction to the “Communist threat” corrupted generations of Americans and was the justification of the advent of official amorality in a virgin America that still considered itself pristine. In the Cold War any subterfuge was licit. In the Cold War the lie was good. Four decades of the great lie of anti-Communism sufficed to generate a new morality in America. A morality of evil that filtered down into society. It has nothing to do with ideas or ideology; only power. It is a way of viewing the world, pursued and confirmed by a great slice of the country’s intellectuals. A cold manner, amoral and immoral at the same time. This evil power is an American spirit, an evil spirit that has perhaps always lurked in America. For as we now know America was never innocent. At the best, only naive. Evil lurked in the Blue Ridge Mountains of my boyhood. Evil still lurks in fundamentalist America.

  • 520.Sheriff: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:15 pm

    #506 Rum And Maple:

    Sê sy moet jy een dag net so ‘n raps gee, net so vir “old time sake”

  • 521.SpringbokSarah: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:15 pm

    #513 Sheriff: rofl

  • 522.Sheriff: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:17 pm

    #512 K9_BaasPatrolliehond:

    Dis ‘n mooi naam, sal vir my vrou so deurgee …

  • 523.K9_BaasPatrolliehond: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:17 pm

    #517 Sheriff: Sherbert

  • 524.Pietman: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:18 pm

    #516 Puma:
    -11 here, on the balcony thermometer as I came in, behind double glazing…..out there with the wind and chill factor probably -17 or so.
    Our max was +2 at noon.
    Poured some serious brandy as I entered the kitchen, to de-mist my eye-glasses!

  • 525.grootblousmile: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:19 pm

    #517 Sheriff: Ek mis my ma se karringmelkbeskuit…. en haar souskluitjies……..

    Jinne, sy is te vroeg reguit hemel toe….

  • 526.K9_BaasPatrolliehond: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:19 pm

    #518 SpringbokSarah: Thought u said u felt like biltong ;)

  • 527.Sheriff: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:19 pm

    #519 Nguni Stud:

    Delete that and save for another day.

  • 528.Rum And Maple: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:19 pm

    #514 K9_BaasPatrolliehond: ‘n dag lange lammie…

    #515 grootblousmile: Ja, daai goed slaan erg seer. Samejoor het mooi lyne gelos…

  • 529.Pietman: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:19 pm

    #519 Nguni Stud:
    You from Virginia or Kentucky?

  • 530.gunther: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:20 pm

    #508 SpringbokSarah: thats funny – I saw some when I was there six months ago…as for the camels they DEFINITELY have those in Dubai.

  • 531.Sheriff: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:20 pm

    #523 K9_BaasPatrolliehond:

    O hel, trek my kiewe nou op ‘n hoop

  • 532.Sheriff: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:21 pm

    #525 grootblousmile:

    Vra by van die tannies by die tuisnywerhede; baie van hulle is heel behendig

  • 533.Rum And Maple: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:22 pm

    #520 Sheriff: eish boet…weetie jong…se mos ek raak tranerig om net na hom te kyk.

    Dalk moet ek en my boet hou vir hou speel met hom…

  • 534.SpringbokSarah: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:22 pm

    #526 K9_BaasPatrolliehond: oooooooo now I get it

    #530 gunther: no I saw some camels but they didn’t offer camels here, they offered them in Dubai

  • 535.grootblousmile: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:24 pm

    Kyk, nou het ek myself behoorlik honger gepraat………. winkels hier kom ek…. sommer nog paar Kameeltjies ook koop.

    Praat later !

  • 536.SpringbokSarah: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:26 pm

    #535 grootblousmile: lol see ya

  • 537.Sheriff: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:26 pm

    #525 grootblousmile:

    Ek het mos die 3 seuns; ek sal ‘n punt daarvan maak om dit by hulle in te prent om uit te kyk vir ‘n mooi vrou wat kan lekker kook; van die wat nog hulle mans bedien

  • 538.Rum And Maple: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:26 pm

    #535 grootblousmile: Gaan goed GBS.

  • 539.Pietman: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:26 pm

    #532 Sheriff:
    Kry mens nog daai klein jamtertjies by die tuisnywerheid in SA?
    En aspersie en souttert?
    Ek het daai nywerheid se anties in Waverly en East lynne leeg gekoop van daai goete, vrek oor dit!

  • 540.K9_BaasPatrolliehond: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:27 pm

    #534 SpringbokSarah: But u were suppose to laugh :(

  • 541.trupisero: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:27 pm

    hey, what goes on?
    Wie wys muis?

  • 542.Pietman: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:28 pm

    #537 Sheriff:
    Drie!
    Dog jy het net twee….nee hel, jy sal moet laat weet voor jy kom, dat ek tant Sofie kan waarsku om ekstra te bak!

  • 543.SpringbokSarah: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:29 pm

    #540 K9_BaasPatrolliehond: ok which one do you want?

    1. lol (laugh out loud)
    2. rofl (roll on floor laughing)
    or
    3. lmao (laugh my *** off)

  • 544.K9_BaasPatrolliehond: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:29 pm

    #541 trupisero: Praat oor alles. van muise tot seer gate.

  • 545.Sheriff: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:29 pm

    #539 Pietman:

    Ons koop daar by Menlyn Retail Park s’n; weet nie op jy nog onthou.

    Daar is van alles; top gehalte maar dit sal jou ‘n paar rand uit die sak jaag.

    Het nou die dag oor die R250 betaal vir ‘n “Manchester United” koek vir middelste seun

  • 546.Pietman: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:30 pm

    Waar is jy Tacitus?

  • 547.gunther: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:30 pm

    #513 Sheriff: you are very funny……..do you mean to be?

  • 548.Rum And Maple: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:31 pm

    Gotta Go now…cheers all…talk later.

  • 549.Sheriff: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:31 pm

    #542 Pietman:

    Ja, hulle is onderskeidelik 8, 6 en 2.

    Hectic is nie die woord nie …

  • 550.grootblousmile: Reply to this comment
    9 Dec 2008, 16:32 pm

    #539 Pietman: Aspersies………. jinne my vel gril sommer saam……. ek was nog nooooooooooit so honger nie !

    Aspersie = Olifantpuisie

    Flippen hel, ek ruik daai ding uit ‘n tert uit, is nog nooit gevang daarmee nie…….

    Ek eet eerder ‘n muishond se gat, van die binnekant af buitentoe !

    Laat ek loop ry vir proviant !

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