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David O'Sullivan 
The Blitzboks won the bronze final 24-7 against the USA – their final match of the World Series season held at the Paris HSBC Sevens.
A day after arriving in the French capital, the Blitzboks have been reinvigorated by the arrival of new team members and a hint of déjà vu.
There was disappointment and tempered elation in the Blitzbok camp, where they lost both their matches but still did enough to secure automatic qualification to the Olympic Games.
With just two tournaments left in the 2018/19 World Sevens Series competition, the Blitzboks only a mathematical chance of defending their world title.
Next weekend Branco du Preez competes in his 70th tournament at the London Sevens, overtaking Kyle Brown to hold the record for most tournaments for South Africa on his own.
Once again the old sports journalism cliché of a match being “a game of two halves” rang true as South Africa fought back in a dramatic final to beat Fiji at the Singapore Sevens.
Hong Kong, the spiritual home of Sevens rugby, has always been the bogey venue for South Africa with the Blitzboks never having won on Chinese soil before.
Chris Dry has been promoted to the Springbok Sevens 12-man squad at the Hong Kong Sevens after Zain Davids was ruled out.
SA Rugby posted a modest post-tax profit of R2m after two years of losses, it was announced at the Annual Meeting of the organisation in Cape Town on Wednesday.
Siviwe Soyizwapi will captain the Blitzboks team to the Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens next weekend.