With this win, Canada has now claimed a medal in every rugby 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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RIO DE JANEIRO Japan is rapidly becoming a force to be reckoned with in world rugby after a series of upsets at the highest levels of the game, Olympic sevens player Lote Tuqiri told reporters on Tuesday. “He’s got a great work ethic”, Tietjens said. “With the great coverage that we’re getting, people are looking at rugby – so now what?”
“We’ve seen just how good that Japanese team are – they are outstanding – and they deserved their win, like we deserved ours today”.
“New Zealand started to struggle a bit there so we thought if we keep moving the ball around the big guys would tire somewhere and they did”.
Kish was a steely presence on the field through the tournament, but when the final whistle blew, she sank to her knees on the grass in sobs, hands over her face. “Even though we won bronze, it feels like we won gold”.
The proud parents of the gold-winning women’s rugby sevens team have pledged to get matching tattoos to celebrate their daughters’ achievements.
Rugby is back in the Olympics for the first time since 1924, but in the condensed sevens format and with women competing for the first time.
But this creates a challenge for Rugby Canada: People with new interest in the game are going to come looking for sevens, when the traditional 15-player game is still the backbone of most club systems and worldwide competition. It’s such a shame because he’s got to understand the game of sevens so well.
“It was disappointing, it’s obviously the first time Japan have beaten us”, he said.
And reflecting on Japan’s epic triumph against New Zealand, Amor added: ” People who’ve watched sevens this year, you would be a fearless person to predict any game.
“I couldn’t think of anyone who deserves it more and is more suited”. Ashley Steacy has lived apart from her husband for the past two-and-a-half years.
“How Japan finished in the World Cup was really a big boost for Japanese rugby”, he said. “These ladies train like professionals but they’re amateur, government-funded athletes who train six days a week and have been for quite some time now”, said coach John Tait.
On Tuesday, New Zealand lost to Australia in the final of the women’s tournament. “Look what the 15s did in the World Cup”. “We’re competing with rugby powerhouses, and to stay competitive with them we have to design a sevens-specific pathway that’s going to feed this program for years”.
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Charlotte Caslick, who scored a staggering seven tries for Australia in Rio, admitted that the team’s wild partying would likely continue for the duration of the Games.
