Lote tuqiri playing for Japan, rent a winger.

On a vaguely serious point about taking 455 to Brazil, I have no idea how the commercial side of TV works but there must be scope to combine with other nations. E.g a deal with an Aussie company, bbc do the rugby, aus co do the rowing? Do Eddie butler and sir Clive need to be out there, they could talk tripe and ignore forward passes from the uk.

Just now in the gb v Japan game I could hear another English commentator in the background, appears to be plenty of scope for savings to me

Did you know that Fascist governments always forced schoolchildren to do gymnastics as it produces the most athletic and fit soldiers of any sport?

Bit of a roundabout way of saying that gymnastics is the sport that produces the best athletes

You do know that isn't the Lote Tuquiri who used to play RL right?

My error, saw his name on teamsheet and assumed must have been him. Cheers, I should have watched the game more closely.

I think he is about 40 now, a bit older than your average 7s player

According to Wiki (so take the info with a pinch of salt), he's a cousin of the his more famous namesake)

455 really isnt an awful lot considering there are 306 events in 28 sports over 16 days often simultaneously that need to be presented not only on tv, but radio and web too.

People think most of them will be presenters, commentators and pundits out there getting paid a fortune for a jolly, the reality is that most of that 455 will be cameramen, technicians, directors, producers, engineers etc, as well as freelance journalists.

Its an absolute myth that the BBC is the incredibly wasteful behemoth put about by free market ideologues who hate the fact that there isnt a profit to be snaffled up by making the product poorer and more expensive. For a comparison that 455 is 40% less than the number at london 2012, and about 10% less than Beijing 2008. NBC from the free market utopia that is the US will send more than 2000 staff, will screen less live coverage and will have that coverage interrupted by commercial breaks.

True. Comparing the number of BBC staff to competitors is slightly flawed. In some events you're only going to have 1 British competitor but of course it takes a team of people to provide the coverage both in front of the camera and behind it.

I mean how many support staff/coaches are going over with the athletes? That's their version of crew that you don't see on screen just like the presenters and pundits have theirs.

It should be how many British athletes AND coaches/staff/officals are going over and compare it to BBC staff, but I doubt that number makes for a sensationalistic story.

And many of those techs will be operating as freelancers too, rather than on the BBC payroll.

Actually, having heard Matt Baker's lamentable output last night, Vegas gets my vote.

Watching gb v arg" gb have been very excellent". Must be watching a different game to me , looked v dumb v 6 men for mine.

Ratchford's s twin gets the winner

They were portraying it as the best 7's game ever and Inverdale's saying this must convince the organisers to include 7's at the next Olympics. I mean it had some excitement in terms of it was close and the novelty of the 0-0 scoreline and having to go to golden point and chances went begging, but they went begging because players messed them up and GB seemed determined to throw it away.

It was like when you have a 40-36 scoreline in RL and Sky commentators try and tell you it was a classic because of how much was scored when really it was two poor defences, except this was on the other end of the scale wih no points being scored at all in normal time.

Watching footage of the South Africa win after, GB will have to be a hell of a lot better when they play them if they want to reach the gold medal match.

To be fair, Argentina more than contributed to bringing down the standard. There was a point where they had a man advantage and hoofed the ball off the park rather than keep it in the hands.

Surprised how little game time Anthony Watson is getting, given Sevens is made for a player with his strength, footwork and pace.

I can see the men mirroring the women's result and finishing fourth, losing both their games today.

The running lines from most sides in 7's is appalling. So many times they needed to just draw the man to create a huge over lap, or straighten up to hit a hole, or even just run at the gap but they spread these long looping passes while stood flat allowing the defence to slide across.