Singapore, 14 April 2016

1. 00:00 Fiji team doing a traditional war dance at Changi Airport after the arrival

2. 00:16 Various of Fiji players walking in for training

3. 00:29 Various of warm up

4. 00:38 Shot of Ben Ryan, Fiji coach

5. 00:44 SOUNDBITE: (English) Ben Ryan, Coach, Fiji Rugby Sevens (on the popularity of Rugby sevens in Fiji):

"It's our national sport, so our best athletes play rugby. We have been successful at it and that's also created this aura around the team, the way we play, totally different to every other side in the world who play sevens. It's a risky entertaining exciting slightly laid back, sometimes, way of playing the game. And we are doing it to a very high level at the moment and added a lot of professionalism. They are fit, healthy, tactically very aware of what to do against different teams now, and this team has slowly evolved over the last two, two and half years, not been an overnight success. We have always had good Fijian teams, we have now got a consistent side that is number one in the world and has been over the last year."

6. 01:29 Various of training

7. 01:42 Players stretching

8. 01:53 SOUNDBITE: (English) Ben Ryan, Coach, Fiji Rugby Sevens (on what is special about Fiji sevens team)

"I think because we play the way that everybody wants the game to be played, we play on our feet as much as possible. We keep the ball alive, we do have audacious off-loads, they play with a smile on their face. In a Star Wars we are the rebel forces against the dark forces perhaps of physical, attrition-based rugby that's come into the professional game. And we are a lovely refreshing opportunity for players and for fans to have a look at the way we play and put smiles on their faces and see that you can still play in a very simple format, at a very high skill level and you can still smile and you can still have fun."

9. 02:33 Various of training

10. 02:43 SOUNDBITE: (English) Nemani Nagusa, Fiji (on Fijians' expectation at the Olympics):

"They really are looking forward to it, especially that Fiji has never won a gold medal. So yeah this is a good chance for us to win one and so the people are really looking forward to it and are giving their full support to the boys and to the management to the Olympics."

11. 03:04 SOUNDBITE: (English) Emosi Mulevoro, Fiji (on what it means if Fiji wins a gold at the Olympics):

"It's going to mean a lot to Fiji because they will be the first medal in Olympics in our country".

12. 03:15 Shot of Osea Kolinisau, Fiji Sevens captain

13. 03:21 Wide shot of training

14. 03:26 SOUNDBITE: (English) Ben Ryan, Coach, Fiji Rugby Sevens (on how the players will deal with pressure during the Rio Games):

"I think they probably know none of them would be fully prepared going into the village and going to the Olympic Games. You know we obviously have a lot of media around the team and we have done for the last six or seven months but, compared to Olympics, it's a whole new ball game..multi-sports events at that magnitude are going to throw (off) all the teams and we've got to keep our distractions down. But if we can make sure that when we get to the field we are playing as well as we can and we can deliver a gold medal to the country, then that's just going to be a phenomenal legacy for these boys on the island."

15. 03:57 Pan from Fiji jersey to player looking on

16. 04:01 Various of Ben Ryan

SOURCE: SNTV

DURATION: 04:11

Rugby-mad Fiji is looking to claim its first ever Olympic medal as rugby sevens makes its first appearance in the Games this summer in Rio.

SCRIPTING INFORMATION:

The Fiji rugby sevens team made their presence felt when they arrived recently in Singapore's Changi Airport to participate in the Singapore Rugby Sevens, part of the rugby sevens world series.

Similar to the famous Maori Haka performed by the New Zealand All Blacks, the Fijian traditional war dance is called Cibi (pronounced thimbi).

Fiji has been a rugby sevens powerhouse for many years. They have won the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens, an important and popular leg of the world series, a record 12 times.

Fiji has also won the Rugby Sevens World Cup twice - in 1997 and 2005.

The Pacific Island nation are the reigning world champions after taking the world series in 2015 under the guidance of their English coach Ben Ryan.

Ryan, who was formerly England Rugby Sevens coach, believes the Fiji team plays the most attractive form of rugby - in a way the sport was meant to be played.

It makes Fiji - like Brazil in soccer and West Indies in cricket - the second favourite team of almost every rugby sevens fan.

The popularity of the Fijians have also raised the expectations on the team as it prepares for the Rio Olympics.

Fiji has never won a medal at the Olympics but with rugby sevens featuring in Olympics for the first time, the Rio Games gives them a great opportunity to win a gold.

Fiji will be pushed all the way by the usual suspects of New Zealand and South Africa while Kenya and the United States are emerging nations with medal chances.

But rugby sevens by nature is unpredictable and coach Ryan knows that all too well with Fiji going down to Kenya in the final in Singapore.

The Rio Olympics will be an opportunity for players like captain Osea Kolinisau and Nemani Nagusa to leave a legacy - a gold medal which would bring historic sporting glory to the island nation.