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Anyone watching Dubai's sevens?
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<blockquote data-quote="nik" data-source="post: 774632" data-attributes="member: 12284"><p>USA beating NZ a surprise? Not really. Remember that USA did win the London tournament last year.NZ were also injury ravaged in the tournament. For the SF against Fiji they only had a line up of 8 fit players. By the end of the bronze match they only had 6 fit players. For NZ in terms of injury it was a horror tournament however they would be pleased to finish 4th above the likes of South Africa.Sevens has evolved immensely in the last 15 years even more so after it got announced in the Olympics. When the world series started off in 2000, it was just a two-horse race, NZ and Fiji were consistently reaching the final of almost every tournament. England was the next team to become consistent like NZ and Fiji. Then teams like Samoa, South Africa became consistent. Nowadays teams like NZ Fiji England South Africa can beat each other any day. Australia, USA, France can also defeat the top teams, however their consistency is in question.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nik, post: 774632, member: 12284"] USA beating NZ a surprise? Not really. Remember that USA did win the London tournament last year.NZ were also injury ravaged in the tournament. For the SF against Fiji they only had a line up of 8 fit players. By the end of the bronze match they only had 6 fit players. For NZ in terms of injury it was a horror tournament however they would be pleased to finish 4th above the likes of South Africa.Sevens has evolved immensely in the last 15 years even more so after it got announced in the Olympics. When the world series started off in 2000, it was just a two-horse race, NZ and Fiji were consistently reaching the final of almost every tournament. England was the next team to become consistent like NZ and Fiji. Then teams like Samoa, South Africa became consistent. Nowadays teams like NZ Fiji England South Africa can beat each other any day. Australia, USA, France can also defeat the top teams, however their consistency is in question. [/QUOTE]
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