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		<title>Brilliant New Zealand beaten by Fiji in controversial Glasgow Sevens final&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fiji won the Glasgow Sevens, the penultimate round of this season&#8217;s World Sevens Series, by coming from behind to beat New Zealand 24-17 in the final on Sunday. But there was a silver lining for New Zealand in that their run to the final helped them secure a place at next year&#8217;s Olympics in Rio, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>Fiji won the Glasgow Sevens, the penultimate round of this season&#8217;s World Sevens Series, by coming from behind to beat New Zealand 24-17 in the final on Sunday.</p>
<p>But there was a silver lining for New Zealand in that their run to the final helped them secure a place at next year&#8217;s Olympics in Rio, where sevens will be making its Games debut.<br />
Apisai Domolailai came off the bench to score two second-half tries, with Fiji coming from 12-5 down at the break to win their fourth Sevens title this season.<br />
Victory also saw the Pacific Islanders move ahead of South Africa in the race for Sevens World Series title, having earlier beaten the Blitzboks 15-0 in their quarter-final.<br />
The top four teams at the end of this season&#8217;s World Rugby Sevens will qualify automatically for next year&#8217;s Olympic tournament in Brazil.<br />
Saturday&#8217;s results saw Fiji and South Africa book their Olympic places and New Zealand joined them on Sunday.<br />
Fiji will now head south to London leading the overall standings on 147 points, with South Africa second on 142 and New Zealand third on 139.<br />
England are in the box seat to gain the fourth and final automatic Olympic place as they currently have 117 points compared to Australia&#8217;s 101, with the 16-point lead highly unlikely to be overturned in London.<br />
Delighted Fiji coach Ben Ryan said: &#8220;This is the most amount of (tournament) wins – four – that we&#8217;ve done in one season.<br />
&#8220;We have put ourselves in a great position to win our first World Series in 10 years. We have a fit team and we want to win back-to-backs,&#8221; the Englishman added.<br />
New Zealand&#8217;s long-serving sevens chief Gordon Tietjens, while disappointed by his side&#8217;s position in the standings, said there had been a bigger prize at stake.<br />
&#8220;The World Series was important but qualification for the Olympics was the goal,&#8221; said Tietjens.<br />
&#8220;We knew it wasn&#8217;t going to be easy to finish in that top four so to know we&#8217;re there is really pleasing and you can start seeing yourself going to Rio now.&#8221;<br />
Australia lost 14-7 to the United States in the quarter-finals and then went down 21-12 to South Africa in the plate semi-final at a wet Scotstoun Stadium.<br />
If Australia do finish the season in their current position of fifth, the green and golds will play in the regional Oceania Rugby tournament in Auckland on 14-15 November, with the winning nation booking its ticket to Rio.<br />
&#8220;Going into the game against the USA we were very confident and played well in patches,&#8221; said Australia sevens coach Geraint John.<br />
&#8220;However, we shot ourselves in the foot against the Americans by turning the ball over too many times and handing them two tries from around 100 metres out which is particularly disappointing,&#8221; the Welshman added.<br />
&#8220;Throughout the weekend I think we&#8217;ve shown glimpses of what we are capable of, but we have been too erratic.&#8221;</p>
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