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 total standings to qualify for subsequent 12 months’s Games.
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It seemed as if Australia had missed out after they have been crushed by Fiji within the quarter-finals earlier on Sunday.
Samoa, their closest challengers, have 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 attempt, Samoa would have booked their place in each the Twickenham closing and the Olympics.
Argentina, nevertheless received the match and that opened the door for Australia.
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After all the stress, Nathan Lawson ran in a hat-trick of tries as Australia hammered Great Britain 34-5 to safe Olympic qualification through 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 closing, the Los Pumas Sevens profitable their gold medal of the 2022/23 marketing campaign to spherical off their most profitable season in fashion.
Source: www.foxsports.com.au