Canada thumps Japan in Olympic rugby sevens, squeezes through to quarters

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Canada thumps Japan in Olympic rugby sevens, clings to slim quarterfinals chance

On the way back to their apartments in the Tokyo 2020 athlete’s village, their phones started blowing up.“Losing it! Me and Hammond just did a massive celly in the middle of the village,” Hirayama texted Postmedia. “Made a scene. Just couldn’t watch it.”

In a normal game, we’d be talking about the thumping win; instead you were left wondering if that late score, bringing Canada’s cumulative points difference back to -14, would mean they would come up just short of snatching the final spot in the knock-out round.Article content Kenya flubbed the re-start, handing Ireland a penalty at centre field with no time on the clock, but the men from the Emerald Isle couldn’t make their own attack work and instead saw the ball bounce into touch.

And the opening to the second half wasn’t what Canada wanted either as they struggled to control the ball — it was raining heavily — and after a scrambly sequence, Kazushi Hano grabbed Japan’s first try.Article content

 

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