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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.
It’s not you, rugby, it’s me. What will it take to put that old spark back in our relationship, now that the dazzling days of the World Cup are just a distant memory?
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.
The girlfriend who loves rugby as much as she loves her boyfriend, turns into the wife who forgets all about the game while her husband carries on cheering.