COMMONWEALTH GOLD
Kwagga Smith targets medal and spot at Lions
Blitzbok forward Kwagga Smith confirmed he was available for April’s Commonwealth Games even though he will be back at the Lions playing Super Rugby. Smith will return to Super Rugby following the next two World Sevens Series tournaments in Sydney and Hamilton over the next two weekends. Although he wants to give fifteens a full go in 2018‚ in an effort to break into the Springbok team with an eye to the 2019 World Cup‚ Smith still has the desire to win another Commonwealth Games gold medal and an Olympic gold in 2020. "I have these next two tournaments left before I go back to Super Rugby and I want to make the best of it‚" Smith said. "I have told coach Neil Powell I will be available for the Commonwealth Games if he wants to select me. It works out quite well actually because the Games fall on an off-weekend for the Lions in Super Rugby. "And then the Lions come to Sydney for their Super Rugby tour and I might already be over here‚ which makes it doable. "I have won a Commonwealt...
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