The Springbok Sevens again failed to book a spot at the Olympic Games in 2024 by losing 17-12 defeat to Kenya in the final of the Africa qualifiers on Sunday.
And now coach Sandile Ngcobo and his team’s only chance of making it to Paris is if they are given clearance from Sascoc to play as one of 12 teams who will fight it out for one spot in the Olympic repechage tournament in June next year.
After also failing to qualify automatically by finishing in the top four of the World Series, Ngcobo says of their latest setback: “It was a really disappointing finish to a tournament we prepared extremely hard for…
Sandile Ngcobo: “To lose like this after having played some very clinical rugby is a hard pill to swallow” - more here: https://t.co/4tpAwbu2h6 😔#BlitzIgnite pic.twitter.com/8IkiG8S0rl
— Springbok Sevens (@Blitzboks) September 18, 2023
“This team can be gold medal contenders [at the Olympics], we showed that at the Commonwealth Games last year...”
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