Sevens Rescue
Government is willing to support the Fiji Airways men's and women's rugby sevens teams in their preparations for next year's Paris Olympic Games in France.
Saturday 29 July 2023 | 11:48
Fiji’s team poses with their gold medals after winning men’s rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, July 28, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. Credit: Shuji Kajiyama, Associated Press
Government is willing to support the Fiji Airways men's and women's rugby sevens teams in their preparations for next year's Paris Olympic Games in France.
This was confirmed by the Minister of Youth and Sports Jese Saukuru during an interview with SUN sports, this week.
This was after Fiji Rugby Union interim Trustees chairman Peter Mazey indicated on June 27, of plans to slash the budget of the national sevens teams.
"For HSBC sevens we will work on budget cuts," Mazey had said then. "It's quite hard to send all our players into camps for long times, for camps held in tourist resorts which cost $25k a week; we can't afford that."
Saukuru said Government, would always be there for the national sevens teams.
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