Australia has started a recruitment process for head coaches of its national men’s and women’s rugby sevens teams after both programmes flopped at the Tokyo Olympics.
The Australian women, coached by John Manenti, were eliminated in the quarter-finals of their gold medal defence in Tokyo.
Under Tim Walsh, the men also fell in the last eight and embarrassed Australia’s Olympic delegation after some of the squad’s players damaged their rooms in Tokyo and were drunk on a flight home.
Rugby Australia said it had completed a review into the “disappointing” Tokyo campaign and advertised for coaches to start in January and take the squads through the Olympic cycle to the 2024 Paris Games.
Both Walsh and Manenti will remain in charge of their teams for the first two legs of the 2021-22 World Rugby Sevens series which begins in Dubai next month.
