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Sevens Heaven - The Beautiful Chaos of Fiji's Olympic Dream: WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 (Hardcover)
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Sevens Heaven - The Beautiful Chaos of Fiji's Olympic Dream: WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 (Hardcover)
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 The
uplifting, feel-good autobiography of Ben Ryan, the coach of the
Olympic gold-medal winning Fijian rugby team It is late summer
2013. Ben Ryan, a red-haired, 40-something, spectacle-wearing
Englishman, is given 20 minutes to decide whether he wants to coach
Fiji's rugby sevens team, with the aim of taking them to the
nation's first-ever Olympic medal. He has never been to Fiji. There
has been no discussion of contracts or salary. But he knows that no
one plays rugby like the men from these isolated Pacific islands,
just as no one plays football like the kids from the Brazilian
favelas, or no one runs as fast as the boys and girls from
Jamaica's boondocks. He knows too that no other rugby nation has so
little - no money and no resources, only basic equipment and a
long, sad history of losing its most gifted players to richer,
greedier nations. Ryan says yes. And with that simple word he sets
in motion an extraordinary journey that will encompass witchdoctors
and rugby-obsessed prime ministers, sun-smeared dawns and
devastating cyclones, intense friendships and bitter rows, phone
taps and wild nationwide parties. It will end in Rio with a
performance that not only wins Olympic gold but reaches fresh
heights for rugby union and makes Ben and his 12 players living
legends back home.
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