Nov 17 (Reuters) - The Autumn Nations Cup game between Fiji and Italy on Saturday has been called off following 29 positive COVID-19 cases within the Fiji team, tournament organisers Six Nations Rugby ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... TOKYO — Jerry Tuwai is a two-time Olympic champion and his Fiji rugby sevens squad has given the people of their Pacific island nation a reason to celebrate ...

For Baber and his players, it’s been a strange and long journey preparing for an Olympic Games in the middle of a global pandemic. “We locked them down for five months,” he told the media after his ...

On the eve of his record fifth Rugby World Cup as a coach, Warren Gatland used his column in a British newspaper to raise concerns about the potential for his Wales team’s training sessions being ...

Fiji may have sacrificed significant home-ground advantage but inclusion in next year's Nations Championship will be "transformational" for the Pacific island rugby nation. The Flying Fijians were one ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama announced a further day of public holiday for the Pacific island nation on Thursday after its rugby sevens team won the country's first ...

The Fiji men's rugy team won gold in rugby sevens at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday. After the final, the player's emotionally sang a traditional Fijian song on the podium. The song was a tribute to ...

TOKYO — The wonders of the Olympics include that a heart can melt suddenly for some team from some faraway place the heart has never even visited, such as, say, Fiji. It’s understandable. Out of all ...

France has its first gold medal of the 2024 Olympics in Paris. The home team took gold in Rugby Sevens, handing Fiji its first-ever Olympic loss in a title game since the sport entered the Olympics in ...

SUVA, Fiji (AP) — A top rugby official in Fiji was fired within days of being appointed after she spoke of “this gay problem” in women’s national teams. Laijipa Naulivou resigned as director of rugby ...