Men and women’s teams compete for place at 2024 Games
There has been griping in the recent past by some Canadian national team athletes about perceived lack of support from their national federations. The best opportunity for national sides to advance in world competitions is by hosting events and several federations have provided that, but the athletes came through with mixed results.
The Canadian coaches, Sean White and assistant Phil Mack, both from Victoria, didn’t qualify as players for the 2016 Rio Olympics before retiring. They can now live through their players, but it is as much a mind game as a physical one.“Every team is coming in with Olympic dreams. But it’s still a couple of rugby games and you get a cool thing at the end of it. Let’s just go out and do our jobs.”
Captain Phil Berna, Cooper Coats and Josiah Morra are the only three Canadian players who were in the previous Olympic qualifier on the Cayman Islands in 2019, out of which Canada qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics by beating Jamaica in the final. The U.S.
“That legacy piece, of having qualified for both Olympics since rugby’s introduction into the Games, is important to us,” said Canadian women’s team captain Olivia Apps.
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