The bronze medal picked up by the Blitzboks at the Paris Olympics was a huge achievement by Philip Snyman and his team, and it is something to celebrate.

Admittedly that is not something we would have considered a few years back, when the SA Sevens team was at the apex of the abbreviated rugby code. In previous Olympics a bronze was considered a failure as there were considerably higher expectations...

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