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TNT Sports clinch deal to broadcast Antoine Dupont's HSBC SVNS debut

France's Antoine Dupont (Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images)

TNT Sports will broadcast Antoine Dupont’s HSBC SVNS debut in Vancouver this weekend alongside RugbyPass TV after clinching a two-year deal to show live in the UK and Ireland the World Rugby sevens circuit.

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The France men’s XV skipper decided last December to take a Test rugby sabbatical to play for his country at the upcoming Olympics in Paris.

He has been now selected to appear in the Canadian leg of the circuit on the same weekend that Fabien Galthie’s Les Bleus are playing their third-round Guinness Six Nations match at home to Italy in Lille.

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A statement read: “TNT Sports announce a new addition to its expanded rugby portfolio by securing live rights to screen the HSBC SVNS, rugby sevens’ biggest annual competition worldwide, in the UK and Ireland on a two-year deal until the end of the 2025 season.

“With three rounds of the 2023/24 series completed, the first broadcast of the revamped series on TNT Sports and discovery+ will be when the HSBC SVNS heads to Vancouver in western Canada on the weekend of February 23/25.

“From Vancouver to Los Angeles and Hong Kong to Singapore, culminating in the grand finale in Madrid, the HSBC SVNS plays host to some of the world’s most iconic destinations with immersive festival experiences for fans cheering the likes of crowd favourites Fiji, the fearsome New Zealanders and exciting South African side.

“The 2023/24 HSBC SVNS also represents the very first time both men’s and women’s tournaments have parity at every round over the season.

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“In a further win for sports fans watching on TNT Sports and discovery+ in the UK and Ireland, show content from every round will include post-match and in-game interviews with players and coaches to bring to life the high-octane atmosphere, as well as additional features and storytelling items to further capture the event to its fullest.

“As the road to Olympic Games Paris 2024 draws closer, broadcasting the HSBC SVNS further strengthens Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Sports Europe’s approach to showcasing Olympic sports all year round.

“WBD’s channels and platforms, discovery+ and Eurosport, will be the only place in the UK to watch all of the Olympics from Paris this summer – including every moment of the rugby sevens competition held at the iconic Stade de France (July 24-30).

Trojan Paillot of Warner Bros Discovery Europe said: “In a historic year for the sport, we’re pleased to further expand our huge and varied premium rugby offer for fans in the UK and Ireland.

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“With men’s and women’s HSBC SVNS now available alongside Gallagher Premiership Rugby, Investec Champions Cup, EPCR Challenge Cup and Premiership Women’s Rugby, as well as all the rugby from Olympic Games Paris 2024 this summer, there is something on offer for every rugby fan on Warner Bros. Discovery Sports platforms.”

HSBC SVNS CALENDAR
Round four: Vancouver, Canada – February 23-25
Round five: Los Angeles, USA – March 1-3
Round six: Hong Kong, April 5-7
Round seven: Singapore, May 3-5
Round eight: Madrid, Spain (grand finale), May 31-June 2

  • Click here for all the HSBC SVNS tournament details 
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JW 1 hour ago
Does South Africa have a future in European competition?

I rated Lowe well enough to be an AB. Remember we were picking the likes of George Bridge above such players so theres no disputing a lot of bad decisions have been made by those last two coaches. Does a team like the ABs need a finicky winger who you have to adapt and change a lot of your style with to get benefit from? No, not really. But he still would have been a basic improvement on players like even Savea at the tail of his career, Bridge, and could even have converted into the answer of replacing Beauden at the back. Instead we persisted with NMS, Naholo, Havili, Reece, all players we would have cared even less about losing and all because Rieko had Lowe's number 11 jersey nailed down.


He was of course only 23 when he decided to leave, it was back in the beggining of the period they had started retaining players (from 2018 onwards I think, they came out saying theyre going to be more aggressive at some point). So he might, all of them, only just missed out.


The main point that Ed made is that situations like Lowe's, Aki's, JGP's, aren't going to happen in future. That's a bit of a "NZ" only problem, because those players need to reach such a high standard to be chosen by the All Blacks, were as a country like Ireland wants them a lot earlier like that. This is basically the 'ready in 3 years' concept Ireland relied on, versus the '5 years and they've left' concept' were that player is now ready to be chosen by the All Blacks (given a contract to play Super, ala SBW, and hopefully Manu).


The 'mercenary' thing that will take longer to expire, and which I was referring to, is the grandparents rule. The new kids coming through now aren't going to have as many gp born overseas, so the amount of players that can leave with a prospect of International rugby offer are going to drop dramatically at some point. All these kiwi fellas playing for a PI, is going to stop sadly.


The new era problem that will replace those old concerns is now French and Japanese clubs (doing the same as NRL teams have done for decades by) picking kids out of school. The problem here is not so much a national identity one, than it is a farm system where 9 in 10 players are left with nothing. A stunted education and no support in a foreign country (well they'll get kicked out of those countries were they don't in Australia).


It's the same sort of situation were NZ would be the big guy, but there weren't many downsides with it. The only one I can think was brought up but a poster on this site, I can't recall who it was, but he seemed to know a lot of kids coming from the Islands weren't really given the capability to fly back home during school xms holidays etc. That is probably something that should be fixed by the union. Otherwise getting someone like Fakatava over here for his last year of school definitely results in NZ being able to pick the cherries off the top but it also allows that player to develop and be able to represent Tonga and under age and possibly even later in his career. Where as a kid being taken from NZ is arguably going to be worse off in every respect other than perhaps money. Not going to develop as a person, not going to develop as a player as much, so I have a lotof sympathy for NZs case that I don't include them in that group but I certainly see where you're coming from and it encourages other countries to think they can do the same while not realising they're making a much worse experience/situation.

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