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Maddison Levi's 27-game streak comes to an end as Australia run hot

Maddison Levi of Australia breaks with the ball during the pool match between Australia and Ireland on day one of the HSBC SVNS at The Sevens Stadium on November 30, 2024 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Christopher Pike/Getty Images)

Try-scoring machine Maddison Levi has added another hat-trick to her collection – but it was the rare match that she failed to score in at the Cape Town Sevens which really demonstrated the strength-in-depth of Australia’s rugby women.

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Levi, who scored a record-breaking 15 in a single World Series tournament to set up the triumph in Dubai last weekend, carried on where she’d left off, her treble in the 45-5 win over Brazil launching her team towards Sunday’s semi-finals and potential back-to-back titles.

Later on Saturday, though, Levi didn’t get on the scoresheet – remarkably for the first time in 27 matches – but the Australians still beat Canada 26-10 to guarantee their progression to the last-four.

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Instead, that match simply showcased the team’s resilience after they had lost two players, Tia Hinds and Sariah Paki, to yellow cards in the first half and were, for more than a minute, trying to stem Canadian attacks with just five players.

Not only did they survive that but even when still a player down, they struck while short-handed with a try in the corner from the returning Hinds.

By the second half, Australia were back in full flow as it was Canada’s turn to defend with six after a yellow card, but Paki, Heidi Dennis, who’d earlier scored against Brazil, and debutant Mackenzie Davis all raced over for tries.

Charlotte Caslick, Australia’s former captain, admitted: “Our work-on for the tournament has been discipline so I guess (losing two players to yellow cards) wasn’t really sticking to that, but we worked hard for each other and hung in there until we got both players back on the field.”

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Earlier, Levi, the 22-year-old world sevens player of the year, had been unstoppable in the rout of Brazil, with captain Bella Nasser, Faith Nathan and Piper Simons also flying over for the champions.

In the semi-finals, Tim Walsh’s side will meet the USA (Sunday 10:34pm AEDT), doubtless with a point to prove after the Americans won their Olympic bronze-medal match in Paris.

Olympic champions New Zealand, who lost the Dubai final to Australia, will play France in the other semi.

But while the women continued to flourish, Australia’s men’s team made another early exit in the main competition, failing to make the semis after the huge shock of losing to Kenya 19-12 to kick off the event.

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Australia squandered a 12-0 lead after first-half tries for James Turner and Hayden Sargeant, but the match was transformed when Aden Ekanayake was sin-binned after giving away a penalty try.

A try in the final 90 seconds was enough for Kenya to cause the upset of the championships.

It left Australia having to beat Dubai runners-up Spain by more than seven points, but they succumbed 19-14, a try for Henry Paterson and a debut five-pointer for James McGregor being answered by three for the Spanish, who set up a semi-final with hosts South Africa.

In the other semi, Dubai champions Fiji will meet Olympic champions France in another re-run of the Paris final.

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“Explain clearly how that’s not an achievement?”

It is an achievement. It is less of an achievement than he managed with Barcelona. You said that ”He has gotten better with age. By every measure.” He hasn’t. Doesn’t mean he isn’t still extremely good though!


”I thought you don’t care what certain managers did 10 years ago…”

are you really this incapable of understanding the context of what I’m saying? My point is that Gatland was a good coach ten years ago, and isn’t a good coach now. So what he did ten years ago is relevant to whether he was good ten years ago - that is pretty basic stuff.

On the other hand, what Les Kiss did ten years ago isn’t relevant to how good he is now, just as what Gatland did ten years ago isn’t relevant to how good he is now.


”So you haven’t watched even a minute of Super Rugby this year?”

I was replying to your comment, given you have the memory of a goldfish and are unable to scroll up, I’m remind you what you said:

“Ireland won a long over due slam in 2009. The last embers of a golden generation was kicked on by a handful of young new players and a new senior coach. Kiss was brought in as defence coach and was the reason they won it. They’d the best defence in the game at the time. He all but invented the choke tackle. Fittingly they backed it up in the next world cup in their 2011 pool match against… Australia. The instantly iconic image of Will Genia getting rag-dolled by Stephen Ferris.”

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