Humphrey Kayange

Kenyan captain Humphrey Kayange confirmed himself as one the major stars on the IRB Sevens circuit last season, inspirationally leading his side to their best year ever. In October he was also part of the triumphant IRB committee that put the finishing touches on Rugby Sevens successful Olympic campaign.Robin Heymann spoke to the rapidly rising star ahead the new IRB Sevens World Series season in Dubai to find out what it was like meeting Jonah Lomu, Olympic funding, his future and who the jesters are in the Kenyan team. Read Full Story

Kenya sensationally dumped defending champions Fiji out of the Rugby World Cup Sevens tournament here on Saturday as the three other top seeds, New Zealand, South Africa and England, all also exited. Kenya beat Fiji 26-7 to set up a Cup semi-final clash with Argentina, for whom Martin Bustos Moyano scored two second-half converted tries in their 14-12 win over South Africa. To chants of "We can do it" from a sizeable Kenyan contingent in the 35,000-strong crowd, tries from Lavin Asego, Biko Adema, captain Humphrey Kayange and Collins Injera handed the Africans a historic victory. Fiji looked flat-footed and Kenya's physicality in the ... Read Full Story

It seems all the campaigning carried out by the Olympic rugby fraternity seems to have paid off! Well at least a little bit. Just to get all up to speed, last month the IOC nominated rugby sevens and golf to be included in the 2016 Olympic Games. This is undoubtedly great news and an achievement in itself, however there is another mountain standing in the way of Olympic Rugby. In order to scale the next mountain rugby sevens has to secure in excess of 50% of the vote from the 106 delegates when they vote in October. If the IRB are successful in achieving ... Read Full Story

Olympic Rugby 1924; the booming 20s were well underway. St Petersburg, Russia had its named changed to Leningrad, a US presidential address was aired on the radio for the first time and the first ‘thanksgiving’ parade in New York took place. 1924 and the 20s in general were times of firsts, World War I was behind people and the world looked forward to a prosperous future. Well with the beauty of hindsight we can see that 1924 also was a ‘last’ for something. 1924, 2 generations ago was the last time that Rugby took part in the Olympics. The ‘Chariots of Fire’ games took ... Read Full Story

In the rugby world at present the game of sevens is never far from the lips of supporters, players and coaches alike. 2009 is a massive year for the modified form of the game of rugby with the decision being taken on the sport’s entrance into the 2016 Olympics by the IOC in October. Given the timing one of the oldest, most famous sevens events taking place in August takes on extra significance. The Middlesex Sevens started 14 years after the last appearance of rugby at the Olympic Games in 1926 and was traditionally held in May at the end of the rugby season ... Read Full Story