With a strong showing at the HSBC Canada Sevens this weekend, Canada could punch its ticket to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Canada enters the HSBC Canada Sevens this weekend in Langford, B.C., as the hottest team in the World Rugby Women’s Sevens Series, looking to punch its ticket to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
John Tait’s team hopes to keep rolling this weekend on home soil in the penultimate event on the six-stop circuit with only Biarritz, France, remaining in mid-June. The maximum points on offer at a tournament is 20 for the winner with the last-place team picking up one point. So Canada will not be able to be caught by the French if it goes to the final stop of the season with a 20-point lead.
Olympic runner-up New Zealand won the first three tournaments of the season before injuries took their toll and the team stumbled to a fifth-place finish in Japan. But the Black Ferns will be bolstered this weekend by the return of Michaela Blyde and Kelly Brazier from injury.
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