Suva, Fiji: Former Australian rugby league and American football star Jarryd Hayne’s dreams of Olympic glory ended on Monday when he was cut from the Fiji sevens squad for the Rio Games.
Hayne, who in May ditched a career in American gridiron with the San Francisco 49ers to join the Fijians, said coach Ben Ryan broke the news to him last Friday and he accepted the decision.
The 28-year-old said he had not given himself enough time to transition into Sevens, which will debut at this year’s Olympics. “As much as I would have loved to go to Rio, I too knew I wasn’t ready yet,” he said in a statement on Facebook.
