Thank you, Olympics.

Despite a frustrating absence from the Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens, China has every reason to be optimistic about its future prospects now that Sevens has been added to the Olympic Games.

China missed the Hong Kong event because it failed to finish in the top three in the 2012 HSBC Asian Sevens Series for the first time since its Hong Kong Sevens debut in 1998.