Unbeaten Canadian rugby teams closer to qualifying for Paris Olympics

Unbeaten Canadian rugby teams closer to qualifying for Paris Olympics
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LANGFORD, B.C. — Canada’s women sevens rugby squad moved into Sunday’s semifinal, and the men set a path to get there, as both teams won all their games Saturday at the Rugby Americas North (RAN) Olympic qualifying tournament.

The Canadian women crushed Mexico 82-src, to punctuate lopsided victories over St. Lucia (59-src) and Jamaica (53-src), and outscored their opponents by a combined 194-src, in front of 3,352 mostly Canada-supporting fans.

“We don’t just want to look at the score line,” said women’s coach Jack Hanratty following the win over Jamaica. “We want to look at every moment of the game to see where we can do better, we want to look at every moment in the game.”

They certainly did that, scoring pretty much at will against a Mexican squad that infrequently had posses

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