Gala won their own rugby sevens tournament for the second time in the space of three years on Saturday to go up to joint second place on the Kings of the 7s leaderboard ahead of the competition taking an eight-month break.
Former Melrose winger Ross McCann has missed out on making it to a second Olympics on the spin after Great Britain’s rugby sevens squad were beaten 14-5 by South Africa on Sunday in the final of a repechage tournament in Monaco.
Rugby fans turned out in their hundreds to see Melrose win 2024’s Kelso Sevens by getting the better of their hosts by 24-15 in Saturday’s final.
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