Ireland Women’s Sevens team’s campaign for Olympic qualification received a huge knock following their performance in the HBSC World Sevens Series in Sao Paulo.
The team failed to record a single win in five games but perhaps more worryingly they only recorded three tries in the competition with Alison Miller (2) and Lucy Mulhall the only scorers.
Defeats to Canada (26 – 7), Australia (19 – 5) and Fiji (15 – 7) in day one left Ireland in a scrap for ranking points in the bottom four in day 2. Interestingly, results saw the Irish girls face, their main rivals for Olympic Qualification, Russia and then Spain in the final day.
A convincing 15 – 0 win by Russia follows by an equally convincing 19 – 0 win by Spain only served to highlight the scale of the task the girls have before them if they are to appear in Rio . . .
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