The Olympic Sevens Global Repechage is taking place this weekend at the UCD Bowl, Dublin. Live coverage starts from 10:00 am with Ireland’s quarter final against Tunisia kicking off at 11:50 am.
Ireland Squad. Lucy Mulhall, Megan Williams, Audrey O’Flynn, Amee Leigh Crowe, Stacey Flood, Ashleigh Baxter, Alison Miller, Kim Flood, Louise Galvin, Aoife Doyle, Niamh Briggs, Nicole Cronin.
How they got here
Ireland went through Day 1 unbeaten, winning their three Pool C matches as follows.
Round 1: Ireland 51 – 0 Trinidad and Tobago
TRY: Miller (4), Murphy Crowe (2), Briggs, Williams, O’Flynn. CON: Mulhall (2) SFlood
Round 2: Ireland 24 – 12 Portugal
TRY: Murphy Crowe (2) Mulhall, SFlood. CON: Mullhall (2)
Round 3: Ireland 12 – 0 China
TRY: Murphy Crowe (2). CON: Mulhall
Worryingly for Ireland, their main rivals for Olympic qualification, Russia and Spain, also progressed serenely through their groups with Russia clocking up an incredible 164 points in their three games without conceding a single score.
Spain also kept their opponents to zero in their three games but only managed to amass 121 points in the process. Kazakhstan were the other Pool winners.
The draw for the quarter finals is as follows.
