The final squads of 12 have been declared by the 16 international coaches ahead of the USA Sevens, round five of the 2014-15 HSBC Sevens World Series to be played at the Sam Boyd Stadium this weekend.
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Lote Raikabula comes in for the injured DJ Forbes for New Zealand, with Scott Curry contining his role as captain for last week's champions.
Fiji and Australia are the only unchanged sides from last weekend, but the Blitzboks of South Africa remain the most experienced with 312 tournaments between them and Frankie Horne, winner of three USA Sevens titles, set to make his 64th appearance. Rosko Specman replaces the injured Justin Geduld for Neil Powell's charges who will be searching for a fourth title in five years and to extend their lead at the top of the series.
Argentina bring in the experienced Francisco Merello, despite losing their leading points scorer and the series top tackler Javier Rojas to the Pampas, who will appear in his 46th series event in a number of changes by Santiago Gomez Cora, while Canada make one change with Sean Duke replaced by Mick Scholz, Alex Davis comes in for the injured Marcus Watson for the Sevens Wellington runners-up England, and Pat Blair joining the USA as they prepare for their home tournament.
Elsewhere, Brazil will field three debutants as their preparation to host rugby sevens' debut in the Olympic Games next year in Rio continues in Gabriel Motta, Arthur Bergo and Matt Gardner.
For the first time ever the USA Sevens will break the 220 hours barrier for live coverage around the world.
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A record 20 broadcasters will be showing the action live across the weekend and will provide 226 hours of airtime across 121 countries. A further five broadcasters will be showing another sevens hours “as live” and highlights, in addition to international news, feature and in-flight coverage.
You can follow all of the action from the Sam Boyd Stadium at worldrugby.org/sevens-series or @worldrugby7s.
