Cape Times (Digital)

Cape Times (Digital)

1 Issue, 2021-07-28

Blitzboks went solo instead of playing as a team

Ashfak Mohamed ashfak.mohamed@inl.co.za THE manner of the Blitzboks’ capitulation in the Tokyo Olympics quarter-final against six-man Argentina warrants a bosberaad at SA Rugby, such was the agonising way in which they went down 19-14 to bow out of medal contention. Only Canada of the other last-eight sides could be considered weaker than Argentina, so it was almost the best possible draw for the Springbok Sevens team. They had earned that spot by outlasting the United States 17-12 in their final Pool C match earlier in the day, but that game may have knocked the stuffing out of the South Africans. They looked short of a gallop despite scoring first through Selvyn Davids against Argentina, and things fell apart once the South Americans lost Gaston Revol to a red card…
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