The Blitzboks will have to carry the favourites tag going into the Cape Town leg of the HSBC World Sevens Series on Saturday‚ but there are many challengers hoping to upset the hosts. Current series champions and Olympic gold medallists Fiji were runners-up in the first leg in Dubai last week‚ losing 26-14 to the Blitzboks in the final. Fiji are still the standard against which sevens teams are measured, but over the course of the past year the Blitzboks are the only team that have had their measure. Fiji and SA have met six times in past 12 months‚ with the Blitzboks winning four of those encounters. SA might not win as many tournaments as the powerful islanders but when it comes to head-to-heads they know how to upset Fiji. In last week’s final‚ after racing into a 14-0 lead‚ the Blitzboks didn’t wilt when Fiji fought back to level the scores early in the second half. SA rallied to score two late tries to win – the last coming from wing and current World Player of the Year Seabelo...
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