‘He’s looked at the squad including those players and doesn’t see them as being in his starting 23.’ At the behest of Joe Schmidt, Rugby Australia boss Phil Waugh has released a host of stars, reports JAMIE PANDARAM.
When putting together the motivational theme for his Australian Olympics squad, rugby sevens coach John Manenti only had to look across the gym to the 2016 Rio gold medal-winning pioneers.
An Olympic gold medal and possibly an NRL premiership could both happen in the coming months for a former Wallaby.
Australian rugby sevens star Maurice Longbottom has revealed all about his “weird” superstitions and opened up on the upcoming Olympics campaign in the latest episode of En Route to Paris.
Mark Nawaqanitawase will be a shock inclusion in Australia’s rugby sevens team for the Paris Olympics, denying the Sydney Roosters the chance to play him in the NRL this year.
Former Wallabies captain Michael Hooper has admitted his chance of Olympic glory in a different sport is unlike anything he’s ever experienced.
Australia’s men’s and women’s sevens teams can breathe a sigh of relief after avoiding the sport’s heavy hitters in rugby sevens pool draws for Paris.
Sevens captain Charlotte Caslick has urged her teammates to push their battered bodies through one more campaign in a bid to have them experience the high of Olympic gold.
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