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Jan 17, 19 •
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The experienced Chris Dry will return to the Springbok Sevens squad for the first time in more than a year after being named in the tour group for the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series tournaments in New Zealand and Australia. Dry last played for the defending...
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Dec 11, 18 •
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Springbok Sevens players Muller du Plessis and Justin Geduld are in a race against time to be fit to tour to Hamilton next month for the HSBC New Zealand Sevens. Both players picked up injuries at the HSBC Cape Town Sevens last weekend, ruling them out of...
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Dec 11, 18 •
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The younger generation of Blitzboks again showed in Cape Town that they are indeed more than capable to swim at the deep end of the HSBC World Sevens Series pool, according to Dewald Human, one of the newer players in the Springbok Sevens set-up. And with a...
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Dec 10, 18 •
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The power of sport to unite was brightly and boldly in evidence once again with bumper crowds celebrating in joyous harmony at the fourth edition of the HSBC Cape Town Sevens over the past weekend. Mr Mark Alexander, president of the South African Rugby...
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Dec 10, 18 •
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The Springbok Sevens team finished third at the HSBC Cape Town Sevens on Sunday after they beat New Zealand 10-5 in the bronze medal match, finishing a weekend that received the thumbs up from Blitzbok coach Neil Powell and captain Philip Snyman. Starting the...
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Dec 9, 18 •
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The Springbok Sevens team on Saturday secured wins over Samoa and Zimbabwe to top Pool A at the end of the first day of the HSBC Cape Town Sevens despite a close defeat against New Zealand in their last match. The Blitzboks won 22-12 against Samoa and 43-0...
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Dec 8, 18 •
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Playing in the Western Cape Sevens tournament had unexpected benefits for four of the participating teams after the Blitzboks handed them tickets to attend the HSBC Cape Town Sevens this weekend. Teams from all over the Western Cape participated in the...
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Dec 7, 18 •
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After 66 tournaments around the world, Kyle Brown knows a thing or two about winning tournaments on the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series – be it in the USA, Europe or Australia, but most of all, he’s also had that winning feeling in South Africa. And not...
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Dec 7, 18 •
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Justin Geduld has recovered from the injury, which cut short his participation in the Emirates Airline Dubai Sevens, while Springbok Sevens coach Neil Powell believes the improvement shown by his 13-man squad in the latter stages of last weekend’s...
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Dec 7, 18 •
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The players in the Springbok Sevens team took full responsibility for the hiccup in Dubai, where an individualistic approach in the opening matches of last week’s tournament led to the less than perfect start to the season for the Blitzboks. That is the...
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Dec 5, 18 •
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The Blitzboks will draw energy from the expected full house at the Cape Town Stadium when the second of ten HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series tournaments kicks off in in Cape Town on Saturday. Springbok Sevens captain, Philip Snyman, said they are keen to get...
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Dec 4, 18 •
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The Springbok Sevens team are not dwelling on what happened in the Arabian Desert in Dubai last weekend, according to Rosko Specman in the build-up to his final tournament for the Blitzboks in Cape Town this weekend before he shifts his focus to fifteens with...
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Dec 3, 18 •
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The Springbok Sevens team will join in the centenary celebrations of the life of the late Mr Nelson Mandela by playing in a specially designed Madiba-jerseys at the HSBC Cape Town Sevens this weekend. Mr Mandela would have turned 100 years old in 2018. He...
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Dec 2, 18 •
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The Springbok Sevens team will face Zimbabwe, Samoa and New Zealand on the opening day of the fourth edition of the HSBC Cape Town Sevens on Saturday, with the Blitzboks’ clash against the All Blacks Sevens concluding what promises to be a scintillating day...
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Dec 2, 18 •
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The Springbok Sevens team’s sixth place in the Emirates Airline Dubai Sevens on Saturday was one of their worst starts in the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series in recent seasons, but coach Neil Powell feels there was improvement as the tournament...
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Dec 1, 18 •
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The Springbok Sevens team will face England in the Cup quarter-finals of the Emirates Airline Dubai Sevens on Saturday after they topped Pool A at the end of the first day of the event, played at The Sevens on Friday. The Blitzboks topped their pool despite...
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Nov 29, 18 •
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Neil Powell has achieved what no one else could in the history of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series. First, as a player, he helped South Africa to clinch their first ever World Series crown, way back in 2008/09 as the team under the guidance of coach Paul...
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Nov 28, 18 •
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The mechanical engineering side of Impi Visser has taught him to be patient, scientific and pragmatic and to trust the construction of designs. So when the 23-year-old graduate takes to the field for his country at the Emirates Airline Dubai Sevens on Friday,...
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Nov 28, 18 •
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Clutching at his knee, desperately fighting off the pain of a torn knee ligament, Kyle Brown saw the chequered flag of his Blitzboks career being waved, as he lay prone on the pitch of the Singapore National Stadium. The 30-year-old forward had just suffered...
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Nov 6, 18 •
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The Springbok Sevens team entered the final stretch of their preparations for the first two tournaments of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, in Dubai and Cape Town, in less than a month. All the players have now assembled for the final push for the opening...
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Oct 25, 18 •
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The Springboks Sevens team will face African neighbours, Zimbabwe, in their opening match of the 2018/19 HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, to be played at The Sevens Stadium in Dubai on 30 November and 1 December. The Blitzboks, who are looking for a third...
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Oct 9, 18 •
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Former Junior Springbok and Emirates Lions scrumhalf, Marco Jansen van Vuren has joined the SA Rugby Sevens Academy and will be available for selection for the team’s first assignment of the season, the Emirates Airline Dubai Sevens International...
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Sep 14, 18 •
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The unprecedented demand for tickets to the HSBC Cape Town Sevens was underlined once more when 34,428 registrations for 163,424 tickets were received for the two-day event at www.capetown7s.com by yesterday’s closing deadline. SA Rugby thanked the public...
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Sep 5, 18 •
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It took the Springbok Sevens until the very last game of the final tournament of the 2017/18 HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series to clinch the overall title for a second consecutive season, and that endurance will again be needed by the squad if they want to...
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Jul 23, 18 •
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Springbok Sevens captain Philip Snyman said on Monday the Blitzboks will return to South Africa with their heads held high and smiles on their faces after their third-placed showing at the Rugby World Cup Sevens at AT&T Park in San Francisco, USA this...
