Samoa will play within the males’s sevens rugby match at subsequent 12 months’s Paris Olympics after beating Papua New Guinea 24-0 in a qualifying remaining on the Oceania Sevens match
ByThe Related Press
November 12, 2023, 2:34 AM
BRISBANE, Australia — Samoa will play within the males’s sevens rugby match at subsequent 12 months’s Paris Olympics after beating Papua New Guinea 24-0 in a qualifying remaining on the Oceania Sevens match on Sunday.
“I feel the laborious work simply started,” Samoa veteran B.J. Lima stated after Samoa certified for the Olympic match for the primary time in its historical past.
Double Olympic champion Fiji, New Zealand and Australia already had certified for the Olympics after securing high placings together with host France and Argentina over the last Sevens World Sequence.
New Zealand beat Fiji for a spot reverse Samoa in Sunday’s Oceania Sevens remaining, although Samoa’s win over PNG sealed its Olympic place.
Papua New Guinea and fifth-place Tonga nonetheless have an opportunity of reaching the Olympics via the ultimate qualifying match subsequent 12 months.
The Fiji girls’s crew additionally confirmed its place on the Paris Olympics with a 54-0 win over Papua New Guinea within the remaining qualifying match. Fijiana have been bronze medalists on the Tokyo Olympics 4 years in the past.
They dominated the Olympic match in Brisbane, scoring 254 factors and conceding solely 5. They added eight tries within the remaining, roared on by a big group of Fiji supporters.
“All over the place we go we now have Fiji supporters and there have been quite a bit in Brisbane right now,” Fiji star Ana Maria Naimasi stated.
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