Sign up for The Torch to receive email updates about all things Olympics - from Team GB and beyond Aspull's Dan Bibby has urged administrators to give rugby sevens the respect and investment it deserves after Team GB narrowly missed out on a bronze medal in Tokyo.
Five years after a surprise silver medal in Rio, simply getting to Tokyo was an achievement for GB, who saw the home nations cut their losses on their sevens programmes because of the pandemic.
That left the team to come up with alternative solutions to make it to Japan, self-funding and training on their own before an injection of cash from the National Lottery.
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