Ben Ryan: ‘I’ve been more nervous than the Olympic final often’

Fiji’s gold-winning sevens coach at Rio 2016 reflects on the band of brothers he forged into a successful team and how they landed the country’s first ever Olympic medal“I much preferred Fiji – even with a dictator in charge, a boss who was convicted for manslaughter, my phone being bugged, the bankruptcy and black magic – than my last year at the RFU,” says Ben Ryan, as he sips on a double espresso and reminisces about an extraordinary journey that culminated in him guiding Fiji’s sevens side to Olympic gold in Rio.We are in a cafe not far from Twickenham, where Ryan worked for six years as t…