Australia booked their place on the Paris 2024 Olympic Sevens rugby event on Sunday as Argentina received the concluding London leg of this season’s World Sevens Series at Twickenham.
Victory within the seventh-pace playoff towards Great Britain, meant Australia wrapped up fifth place within the general standings to qualify for subsequent 12 months’s Games.
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It regarded as if Australia had missed out once they had been overwhelmed by Fiji within the quarter-finals earlier on Sunday.
Samoa, their closest challengers, had been already into the semi-finals after which led Argentina.
Had they received that match then a spot on the Games would have been theirs and, however for a ahead cross that led to a disallowed strive, Samoa would have booked their place in each the Twickenham remaining and the Olympics.
Argentina, nevertheless received the match and that opened the door for Australia.
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After all the strain, Nathan Lawson ran in a hat-trick of tries as Australia hammered Great Britain 34-5 to safe Olympic qualification by way of the World Series for the primary time.
“Today has been one of the biggest rollercoasters ever,” stated Australia captain Nick Malouf.
“We just got lucky by some miracle, had the chance to play for it there and there’s been so much hard work gone into this time.
“We’ve never qualified automatically so it’s a really big deal and (I’m) just so over the moon.”
Argentina defeated Fiji 35-14 within the remaining, the Los Pumas Sevens successful their gold medal of the 2022/23 marketing campaign to spherical off their most profitable season in fashion.
Source web site: www.foxsports.com.au
