The notion that America would dominate world rugby union if it only tried has become a tired cliché. Fiji have won four tournaments on the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series this season to the USA’s one but the Americans have reached the semi-finals at every event. In Vegas, which the USA won, and in Dubai, which New Zealand won, Fiji did not do that. In London last week, Fiji won the cup and the US were third. It will be satisfying to World Rugby that at the end of a 10-tournament season, Paris could produce a winner-takes-all final.

Source: The Guardian June 01, 2019 04:52 UTC