Olympic Dream

The 2016 gold medal winners finished third in last season's World Sevens Series, which was cut short because of the global pandemic.

Head coach Gareth Baber admitted they found it tough to live up to the title winning effort last year.

"It's slightly inherent in Fijian culture and certainly the way that we play the game that you're going to get bouts where you don't quite live up to that quality," he said.

Tuimaba has signed for Pau while Botitu is now a Castres player and they have been given dispensation by the Fiji Rugby Union to take up their professional contracts in France due to the postponement of the Games which should have take place this summer but the worldwide coronavirus pandemic has forced a delay of twelve months. 

There are four remaining legs of this year’s HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series – Hong Kong, Singapore, London and Paris – and a decision about the feasibility of international travel to those legs will be made shortly.