The Blitzboks got their Olympic campaign off to a poor start as they were beaten 10-5 by Ireland in their opening game on Wednesday evening.
The Blitzboks lost their Olympic opener to Ireland and will need to try bounce straight back in their second pool game against New Zealand.
With the top two teams from each of the three pools, and the two best third placed teams reaching the quarterfinals,will need to beat New Zealand and Japan in their next two pool games to make sure of their progress. After the halftime hooter Ireland finally got their reward as they attacked into the Blitzboks 22m, worked space on the left touchline and Zach Ward offloaded to Conroy to trot over untouched for an unconverted score and 5-0 lead at the break.got off to a much better start in the second half and almost scored when Selvyn Davids kicked through, but Quewin Nortje couldn’t gather the viciously bouncing ball as he knocked on with the tryline at his mercy.
But Davids promptly went from hero to zero as his kick-off didn’t go 10 metres, which allowed Ireland to tap it and boot it out to end the game.
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