GB men's Sevens fail to qualify for Paris 2024

Great Britain person grounded to scope nan men's rugby sevens astatine nan Olympic Games for nan first clip since it made its debut successful 2016 aft losing 14-5 to South Africa successful nan repechage last successful Monaco.

The Blitzboks established a 9 constituent lead astatine nan break aft tries from Quewin Nortje and Shilton van Wyk - and GB could not retrieve aft nan interval.

Defeat intends South Africa declare nan only qualification spot from nan tourney arsenic GB, who won metallic astatine Rio 2016 and mislaid nan bronze badge lucifer to Argentina successful Tokyo, miss out.

GB had topped their excavation and beate Tonga successful nan quarter-final earlier overcoming Spain successful nan past four.

China won nan women's title to subordinate GB and 10 different sides successful Paris.

Chen Keyi scored 2 tries successful their 24-7 triumph complete Kenya successful nan final.

GB women's squad person already secured their spot astatine Paris and named their 12-player squad for nan tourney earlier this week.

The Sevens programme astatine nan Games will return spot betwixt 24-30 July astatine nan Stade de France.