Letter: No room on complacency on keeping the sevens
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OPINION: Should Wellington be quite so complacent about keeping hold of the NZI Sevens?
Sure, it was a fantastic event, at which Wellington enthusiastically transformed itself into a massive party, the streets awash with colour and vibrancy to celebrate the annual arrival of the sevens. How could another city even be considered?
Well, let's not pretend the weekend's revelry had anything to do with sport. You said it yourself in your editorial: the sevens is not really about rugby. It is about the fans who don fancy dress.
With the inclusion of sevens in the Olympic Games from 2016, perhaps the IRB may want it to be about rugby, to be perceived as an actual sporting event, instead of merely a backdrop to a spectacular dress-up party.
SIMON RAGOONANAN
Wadestown
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