Up and Under is a weekly feature on Americas Rugby News which reviews the best and worst from games involving the Americas teams over the previous week. UP Canada Women’s 7s The Americas hopes of a women’s medal at Rio started with Brazil, Canada, Colombia, and the USA. Now, though, …
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Canada have qualified for the medal semi-finals after a tense 15-5 quarter-final win over France. A Bianca Farella try late in the match gave the Canadians the lead and Ghislaine Landry’s run into the corner on full-time sealed their spot in the final four. Canada remained short of their best …
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Brazil scored their first win of the Olympics with a 26-10 victory over Japan in the final round of pool play at Deodoro Stadium on Sunday. Two tries by Beatriz Muhlbauer led the way with singles from Paula Ishibashi and Amanda Araújo. The win won’t be enough to put Brazil …
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The CBRu recently confirmed the arrival of Australian Paul Healy as the director of the High Performance Center in São Paulo. The move sees the former Chilean Head Coach back in South America after leaving Santiago late last year. He departed Chile for Germany where he took charge of TVP Pforzheim. …
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The long wait is over at last – rugby is back in the Olympic Games. Today marked the return of the sport for the first time since 1924 and saw Rugby Sevens debuting. In action were the twelve competing women’s teams. The Americas made up four of these countries with …
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South African Head Coach Allister Coetzee has finalized his playing roster for the Rugby Championship. In doing so he has added Johan Goosen, Bryan Habana, Francois Hougaard, Juan de Jongh, Vincent Koch, Juan de Jongh, Malcolm Marx, and Oupa Mohoje. The roster named is for the opening two rounds of the …
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The wait is over. Rugby is back in the Olympics, and it starts today. The women will kick things off with 12 teams battling it out for the gold. Australia enter as favorites having conquered the HSBC Sevens Series but Canada were crowned champions at the final event in Clermont-Ferrand …
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Fernando Bascou will wear the captain’s band for Uruguay on Saturday. The country’s official ‘A’ side, the Uruguay XV will play host to Argentine city-side Rosario in a non-capped fixture. The match is to serve as vital experience for Uruguay by expanding on the senior player base. With 28 caps …
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Rugby makes its triumphant return to the Olympics tomorrow, with the women’s sevens starting things off. With so many events taking place over the next few days it might not be possible to watch the tournament in its entirety for some people, but as of right now it’s looking pretty …
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Australian Head Coach Michael Cheika has finalized his roster for the Rugby Championship. Having named 36 players, the updated squad of 33 sees Nick Frisby, Luke Morahan and Toby Smith all released. The final roster sees a contingent of players back from France. Toulon backs Matt Giteau and Quade Cooper may yet …
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