Kenya 7s will commence their quest for Gold on the Olympics stage with two matches lined up for this Wednesday.

Kevin Wambua’s charges have a date against Argentina in the opening match set for 5:00 p.m. East African Time. They will later tackle Australia in the second match set for 8:00 p.m. East African Time.

Kenya 7s final match

The side will have the final group-stage match on Thursday at 3:00 p.m against Samoa. On Monday, captains from the 12 men’s and 12 women’s teams gathered at the Olympic Village ahead of what promises to be the most hotly-contested and highly-anticipated rugby sevens event in history.

Following rugby sevens’ debut at Rio 2016 and the Covid-affected Tokyo 2020 Games, the sport is set to ‘come of age’ on the Olympic stage at its third edition in Paris in front of a record-breaking crowd at the iconic Stade de France.

Rugby Sevens has proven to be one of the highest-demand events in the Paris Games with more than 550,000 fans expected to fill Stade de France across the eight competition sessions, and a worldwide television audience of many millions more.

The men’s competition will take place on July 24, 25, and 27 when the first team sport gold medal of the Games will be awarded to the men’s rugby sevens champions.

The equally highly anticipated women’s tournament follows on July 28-30.

The competition format sees all teams play three pool matches with eight teams qualifying for the quarter-finals in the evening session of the second day of competition before the third day sees the semi-finals and the all-important medal matches as Olympic dreams are realized and broken.

Rugby 7s in Paris

Rugby sevens is expected to be one of the highlights of Paris 2024, following the resounding success of Rugby World Cup 2023 in France.

All the action will take place at Stade de France, which was the venue for the opening match and final of the Rugby World Cup 2023.

Fiji have famously won both men’s gold medals to date – Rio being their first ever Olympic medal – but five different nations have won the men’s SVNS Series since 2016, while Argentina were crowned SVNS 2024 league winners and France claimed the inaugural SVNS Grand Final title in Madrid last month, demonstrating the depth of competitiveness.

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