“There is no question Hong Kong is the role model for sevens. And they, the International Rugby Board, couldn’t have picked a better time to have the World Cup in Hong Kong again. The Hong Kong Sevens is world-renowned. It doesn’t matter who I speak to. I was in South Africa on my way here and there wasn’t a soul who asked me what the sevens was; they all knew.”

Mr Froehlich gives a glowing endorsement to the Rugby sevens game as it bids to enter the Olympics. Reported in the South China Morning Post, 21 March 2005.