The Blitzboks have one chance to earn themselves a spot at the Paris Olympics in 2024.
World Rugby announced a tournament that will give teams a chance to earn a spot in the highly-anticipated Olympic Games in Paris 2024.
22 of 24 teams have been confirmed and just one men’s team and one women’s team will battle it out in Monaco to earn the right to line up at the Stade de France in Paris.
The Springbok Women’s Sevens squad already booked their place amongst the world’s elite rugby players and will contest their very first Olympic Games, while the Blitzboks will have to face HSBC SVNS teams Canada, Great Britain, and Spain, with Brazil, Chile, China, Hong Kong China, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, and Uganda the other contestants.
The tournament, which will be hosted by the Monaco Rugby Union in partnership with the Monegasque government is set to take place from 21-23 June.
Speaking on hosting the tournament, Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene of Monaco said It is an honour to be hosting the Olympic qualification tournament in Monaco for the third time in a row.
“Rugby sevens is playing an increasingly important part in the Principality, and we are delighted to be part of this wonderful adventure. We wish the 2024 Olympic qualification tournaments great success.”
The Blitzboks will need to play the qualifier after finishing seventh in the 2022/23 World Seven Series. They would then suffer a calamitous defeat against Kenya in the final of the Continental Qualifier, missing out on a second chance to book their place in the Paris showpiece.
