No pain, no gain: New Zealand’s Stacey Waaka scoring a try during the rugby sevens final match against Canada in St Denis. — AFP
NEW Zealand’s women avoided – just – the curse of being “too good” that dogged their men’s XVs team for so long, as they were forced to dig deep and show their ultimate professionalism in their Olympic rugby sevens final victory over Canada.
Between 1991 and 2007 the All Blacks men were pretty much the best team in world rugby but when it came to the World Cup they kept failing, usually in the first stiff test they faced after cruising through their early games.
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