Hong Kong Sevens Rugby shows off its skills and fun en route to an Olympic Games sport at Rio 2016 All this has been gathering pace for several years. Argentina has been added next season to a circuit that reels around the likes of Wellington, Las Vegas, Dubai, Hong Kong, London and next weekend Tokyo. There has been a distinct uplift in standards across the board. The dawning Olympic experience will give the whole show an even greater boost. The Olympics is big bucks and big opportunity. Fiji collected $100,000 (£63,000) for their thrilling 35-28 win over New Zealand in Sunday's final in what was the single most invigorating rugby action I've seen since the Lions tour three years ago, and that includes the entire Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. It was fast, relentless and ferocious, laced with footballing brilliance from the Fijians in particular. To hell with structure and order, the Fijians put their trust in their instinctive flamboyance. The deftly slipped offload pass from Setefano Cakau that teed up Fiji's opening try was a Lionel Messi moment, a piece of sporting magic. Mind you, two of the finest passes across the entire three days were given by England Women's captain Michaela Staniford, whose energy and skill helped her team claim the IRB Challenge Cup, setting them also on the road to Rio. That France's esteemed rugby organ, Midi Olympique, recently gave over five colour pages in its magazine to Holland's professional women's 7s squads illustrates just what is stirring in rugby's hinterland. The conundrum to be faced by all countries in the next few years is whether they stick with their specialist sevens players or, as 2016 approaches, draft blue-chip names such as a Dan Carter or James O'Connor or George North. Sevens is different, most certainly in the type of fitness demanded with its lung-scorching requirement to run and run, but it's not that different. It would take a three to six-month familiarisation period. The boys would be stretched and not all of them would stack up. But the appeal is obvious. And they wouldn't have to dress up like John Bentley. Intoxicating experiences can be dangerous as well as misleading. The morning after may have yielded a few hangovers, but for most there were no befuddled minds at work. Sevens has its own energising domain. It's here to stay and it's here to grow. Strange decisions by IRB on referees What is the IRB doing with referees? The revamp announced last week sees two Englishmen, Wayne Barnes and Dave Pearson, demoted (as well as Kiwi Bryce Lawrence), with their former boss, Paddy O'Brien, also moved on. But what is it that enables the likes of Alain Rolland and George Clancy to hold sway? That they are both Irish is neither here nor there. But they are both pedants. Clancy all but destroyed one of the great stories of the HK7s in sending off the home side's playmaker, Keith Roberston, within 30 seconds of the start of their crucial game against Japan. There were distinct echoes of Rolland's dismissal of Sam Warburton in the World Cup. The game is not for the refs, it's for the players and the fans. You need judgment in these situations, not robotic actions. Bring back Clive Norling. Lions will roar in Hong Kong A final footnote to Hong Kong tales. No sooner had the tented villages that proved a great draw card to those who couldn't get tickets for the 7s been dismantled, than organisers began planning how to make the first-ever visit here of the Lions next year a similarly high energy occasion. Don't worry. It will be.