Canada has claimed a medal in every sevens event at the Olympic Games, World Cup, Sevens Series circuit overall and Pan Am Games since 2012 for a total of seven medals in seven attempts.
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Canada won the bronze medal with a 33-10 victory over Britain.
Australia were crowned the first ever Olympic rugby sevens champions after beating New Zealand 24-17 in the final of the women s tournament in Rio on Monday.
“When the whistle went. I think tomorrow I’ll have to take time to reply to everyone because it has been so incredible”.
“It wasn’t intentional”, Woodman told reporters after the game, “it was just a mistake, just a reaction, the ball was there”.
After taking a 7-0 lead, Japan fell behind 12-7, but came roaring back with a try.
The favourites outscored the Kiwis by four tries to three, two of them crucially coming either side of half-time when star New Zealand winger Portia Woodman was in the sin bin for a deliberate knock-on.
“To be good at any sport you’ve got to have a good support base with family and Emma’s definitely got that”. “What a freakin’ historic moment for us”. But I love rugby to a level that it doesn’t really matter how high I get.
Fellow player Sharni Williams says the inclusion of Rugby Sevens in the Olympics is great for the fast-growing sport. It wasn’t necessarily the colour they wanted: But for this program, this team, this was significant.
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“You need your strongest seven out there in most games if you’re going to walk away with that Gold medal”. “It’s a hard lesson”. They skipped the opening ceremony to be fresh for their three-day tournament.
“I was playing touch football, I just got a letter in the mail from the ARU saying come and have a crack at rugby, potentially go to the Olympics”, Quirk said.
Caslick said the chemistry the team had developed over the past year had given them the belief that the gold would be theirs.
But the final necessary piece, which Tait spoke about just before they flew here, seemed to be a problem until the final crucial 20-minute game when they turned everything around.
Quirk added she was feeling good despite being a bit sore. We’ve got a lot of X-factor in this group but the real strength is the collective way we play, in both attack and defence.
The fans did their best to show off rugby seven’s quirky side.
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Her role in the historic victory in Rio, which marked the Games debut of rugby sevens, and the 2015/16 world series triumph vindicated a bold but wise move used by the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) created to deliver Olympic gold. Kia Nurse scored 25 points for the Canadians, who trailed by as many as 18 points in the third quarter before outscoring the Serbians 26-10 in the fourth.
