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Sonny Bill Williams ruled out of sevens
The highest-profile player in rugby’s return to the Olympics after 92 years carried the ball into a tackle early in the second half of New Zealand’s 14-12 upset loss to Japan on Tuesday, then stayed on the ground holding his left ankle before being helped from the field.
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New Zealand coach Gordon Tietjens says it is devastating to lose Sonny Bill Williams and Joe Webber as they are influential players.
“But that’s sevens rugby, the gap has closed considerably and if you’re not up for it on the day, you’ll be beaten”. “You’ve got to think that a minnow team can come here and beat a team that’s supposed to be a gold medal contender”.
The three teams from Oceania are spread evenly in each of the three pools and could realistically take their places in the final eight but with Australia to face South Africa, New Zealand up against Great Britain and Fiji taking on the United States of America in the final Pool matches – anything could happen. “We will go at full pelt from the off against Kenya”. 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.
With the likes of former IRB Player of the Year and World Cup victor Byran Habana, along with the highly fluctuating talent of Quade Cooper having failed in their ventures of making it to Rio, one would do well to remember the difficulty of not only adapting to and excelling in the highly challenging parameters of sevens, but also in making the most successful squad of all time in the game.
“It was unbelievable”, said Lemeki after the win over New Zealand.
New Zealand regained some confidence after its bad start with a 28-5 win over Kenya, which opened with a 31-7 loss to Britain.
They were counting on Williams to be the main man in their midfield following the Test retirement of centre greats Maa Nonu and Conrad Smith after last year’s World Cup triumph.
In a surprisingly erratic game between the two, France found its rhythm first through the speed and agility of the pocket-rocket Terry Bouhraoua who worked his magic to get over the line three times for the hat-trick ending with a massive total of 26 points for his first game at the Olympics.
‘I think a few of them said they’d get some dots or something and that would count’. But “there’s a lot of character in this team, I can assure you”.
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Britain’s men made it two wins from two by beating Japan 21-19 in a thriller in their second match. Wednesday 10/08/2016Japanese players celebrate after their win against the All Blacks 7s. It all began from the first kick off when Australia took on France and barely touched the ball in the first five minutes of play.