GB head coach Tony Roques has named a 12-player squad for the repechage match, which sees the return of each Tom Emery and Alex Davis.
Roques took over as coach of the GB Sevens males’s workforce for the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 the place his facet have been defeated by Argentina within the bronze-medal match.
Since Tokyo, GB have misplaced skilled captain Tom Mitchell and all-time prime try-scorer within the World Collection Dan Norton, who each retired from sevens in 2022.
Scotland’s Robbie Fergusson will captain GB, who over the previous two seasons have struggled following the lack of their skilled Olympians and completed ninth and eighth within the World Collection.
Nevertheless, in March GB reached the ultimate within the Los Angeles match, the place they have been defeated 21-0 by a French workforce impressed by Antoine Dupont.
That run to the ultimate included wins over repechage opponents Canada in addition to Australia and Spain.
This month, World Collection champions France additionally wanted extra-time to defeat GB on the Grand Ultimate in Madrid.
The lads’s sevens match will get beneath manner on the Olympics in Paris on 24 July, with the ladies’s occasion beginning on 28 July.
GB repechage squad: Kaleem Barreto, Ross McCann, Harry Glover, Morgan Williams, Robbie Fergusson (capt), Ethan Waddleton, Will Homer, Max McFarland, Jamie Barden, Charlton Kerr, Tom Emery, Alex Davis.
