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/ 25 September 2007
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Japan’s players have earned respect for their fast-paced running game at the Rugby World Cup. Now they want a win. Their last chance comes on Tuesday at the Stade Chaban-Delmas in Bordeaux, where they take on a Canada team equally desperate not to go home empty handed.
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/ 14 September 2007
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It was 2003 and I was working for the Rugby World Cup’s internal news-wire service. Based in Perth, Australia, covering the Springboks’ pool, the Georgian national team were one of the teams with whom I spent a bit of time. What I found was a bunch of athletes whose dreams of representing their country in water polo, wrestling and weightÂÂlifting were crushed by the civil war.