Rugby Sevens to make its GSSE debut in Malta 2023

The Maltese Olympic Committee announced that Rugby Sevens will make its first appearance in the Games of the Small States of Europe in the 2023 edition in Malta after the local governing body of elite sport revealed the list of disciplines to be held on our shores in four years’ time.

MOC president Julian Pace Bonello and Director of Sport Ivan Balzan told a news conference on Monday that delegates of the participating countries had approved the list of sport submitted by the governing body for the 2023 Games.

The submission of Rugby Sevens was a pleasant surprise to many officials from the fellow small countries who welcomed the news with great satisfaction.

Apart from Rugby Sevens, the Malta Games will also see the return of squash and sailing, two sport in which Maltese athletes always shone at GSSE level.

Suffice to say that the last time squash was in the Games, in Liechtenstein 2011, Malta’s men and women’s teams returned home with four gold medals.

Sailing’s last appearance in the Games was in Cyprus 2009 and this discipline also regaled a lot of memorable emotions to our team after succeeding in winning seven gold medals in five inclusions since the Games birth in...