By Sports Reporter
AFTER enduring almost two months of intense training, Zimbabwe’s national fifteens rugby team, the Sables have been forced to cancel their trip to Tunisia for the Rugby Africa Cup Group D qualifying tournament.
This is due to the rapid escalation of Covid-19 cases in the North African country.
The Sables had been scheduled to fly out to Tunis this Saturday ahead of the tournament that had been pencilled for the Tunisian resort city of Monastir from July 9 to 17.
The competition would have marked the beginning of the Sables’ journey to qualify for their first World Cup in three decades by booking a place at the 2023 tournament to be held in France.
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Improvised training for Monaco-bound Zimbabwe Cheetahs
BY DANIEL NHAKANISO
ZIMBABWE’S rugby sevens team technical department has created a special training programme and workout schedules for players to follow from their bases in preparation the Tokyo Olympic Games qualifiers following the suspension of football activity due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Cheetahs, as the national rugby sevens team is affectionately known, are scheduled to participate in the World Rugby Sevens Repechage the final qualification event for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games to be held in Monaco from June 19-20.
After missing out on automatic qualification during the continental qualifier last year, the Zimbabwe Cheetahs will battle it out for the remaining ticket against Brazil, Chile, China, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Jamaica, Mexico, Samoa, Tonga and Uganda.