(Reuters) - Australian Chloe Dalton's hopes of defending the women's rugby sevens Olympic gold medal were crushed after she said she will miss next month's Tokyo Games due to a cheekbone fracture.

Squad of 22 match officials from 12 countries selected for the Olympic Games in Tokyo; Inclusion of five international players who have swapped the playing shirt for the whistle, including New Zealand ...

Tokyo 2020 Olympic rugby sevens pools announced with less than a month to go; The 12 men’s and 12 women’s teams are in three pools of four teams; Reigning men’s gold and silver medalists Fiji and ...

Emilee Cherry won’t be at the Tokyo Olympics to help Australia defend the gold medal it won in women's rugby sevens at Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Cherry, a former women’s sevens player of the year, gave ...

Japan holds special memories for Tom Mitchell – ones that the sevens star hopes he can replicate next year on the biggest stage of all, writes Charlie Talbot-Smith. It was back in 2015 – when Tokyo ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WELLINGTON, Aug 22 (Reuters) - New Zealand's team bidding for a rugby sevens gold medal at next year's Tokyo Olympics will not ...

The announcement by the International Rugby Board (IRB) that Tokyo's Prince Chichibu Stadium will stage the seventh round was made to coincide with 100 days until the opening event at Australia's Gold ...

FILE - In this Aug. 8, 2016, file photo, Australia's Emilee Cherry, right, scores a try as Canada's Karen Paquin, defends during the women's rugby sevens semi final match at the Summer Olympics in Rio ...

Billy Odhiambo scores a try as Kenya contended with South Africa in their Tokyo Sevens IRB series in Japan, yesterday. [PHOTO: IRB The Kenya National Sevens team ended their string of poor ...