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WATCH | Is this the most brutal in-your-face hand-off you’ve ever seen?

The All Blacks sevens team hit Australia for six with a clean sweep of their matches against their trans-Tasman rivals across three days of their Auckland warm-up tournament for the Tokyo Olympics.

The tournament’s format with the two teams was similar to July’s Tokyo Games and both had their strongest line-ups for the sixth match in their first international fixtures since the Vancouver Sevens in March 2020.

The All Blacks sevens emphatically won 36-5 in match five to kick off Sunday morning at Orākei Domain – their biggest victory of the weekend – and finished day three with a 31-14 triumph to make it six wins from six in a contest played as though it was an Olympic final.

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New Zealand, who are reigning Sevens World Cup and Commonwealth Games champions, are among the favourites for the gold medal in Tokyo and were leading the World Series before its shutdown last year because of the Covid-19 pandemic, so returning to the international arena is a massive boost ahead of chasing Olympic gold after finishing a disappointing fifth at the 2016 Rio Games.

William Warbrick, 23, standing an impressive 1.98m and weighing in at 98kg, proved to be Australia’s biggest nemesis over the course of the matches.

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RESULTS

Friday at Orākei Domain: All Blacks 14-5 Australia; All Blacks 26-5 Australia

Saturday at Eden Park: All Blacks 24-12 Australia; All Blacks 26-19 Australia

Sunday at Orākei Domain: All Blacks 36-5 Australia; All Blacks 31-14 Australia



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