London opportunity for Blitzboks
Nextgen Du Plessis out to secure spot in team and help it qualify for Tokyo Olympics
The Blitzboks have two more tournaments left in the current 2018/19 HSBC World Sevens Series campaign to secure their automatic Olympic Games qualification. This weekend’s London leg of the series is the penultimate of a season in which the top four are guaranteed a place in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The Blitzboks are comfortably in fourth on 121 points thanks to winning two of the last three tournaments, in Vancouver and Singapore. They are 14 points clear of fifth-placed England. Barring a dramatic underperformance in London and next week in Paris‚ the Blitzboks should lock down their Tokyo place in the coming fortnight. For Muller du Plessis‚ one of the up-and-coming next-generation Blitzboks stars‚ London is another opportunity for the team to grow towards 2020’s climax in Japan. But for Du Plessis‚ it is also a chance to nail down a permanent berth in the squad after an injury-plagued season. The 19-year-old speedster started with a bang‚ scoring a hat-trick of tries against F...
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