New Zealand's Pacific gender equality ambassador - rugby union world
champion Louisa Wall - has met with various Samoa Association of
Sports and National Olympic Committee officials.
Olympic qualification would bring Samoa together -Auimatagi Sapani Olympic qualification would bring Samoa together -Auimatagi Sapani May 10, 2021
Samoa women’s sevens coach Auimatagi Sapani believes Olympic qualification could help unite the Pacific Island nation.
Both the Manusina and their male counterparts remain in contention for a place at Tokyo 2020, and are scheduled to compete in the Olympic repechage tournament in Monaco next month.
The two teams came close to qualifying for Rio 2016, as Manu Samoa lost the repechage final to Spain on the last play of the match, while the country’s women were beaten by Kazakhstan in their quarter-final.
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10 May, 2021, 1:07 pm
Samoa women’s sevens coach Auimatagi Sapani believes Olympic qualification could help unite the Pacific Island nation. Picture: WORLD RUGBY
APIA, 10 MAY 2021 (WORLD RUGBY) – Samoa women’s sevens coach Auimatagi Sapani believes Olympic qualification could help unite the Pacific Island nation.
Both the Manusina and their male counterparts remain in contention for a place at Tokyo 2020, and are scheduled to compete in the Olympic repechage tournament in Monaco next month.
The two teams came close to qualifying for Rio 2016, as Manu Samoa lost the repechage final to Spain on the last play of the match, while the country’s women were beaten by Kazakhstan in their quarter-final.
The management staff of the Samoa women s sevens team have been stood down until the end of April because the rugby union cannot afford to employ them on a full-time basis.
The Manusina 7s will compete in the Final Olympic Qualification Tournament in June, with the winner advancing to the main draw in Tokyo.
The Samoa women s sevens team held trials in January.
Photo: Facebook/Manusina Sevens
But Samoa Rugby Union High Performance Unit General Manager, Seumanu Douglas Ngau Chun, said because the team only plays in tournament per year the staff are only employed on a part-time basis. We have about six to eight weeks of preparations and then two weeks of tournaments, so normally we call them in around that time and from there they will start preparing their team.