Well done to the Thai women’s rugby sevens team, which has in a run of astonishing victories won its way to the World Cup Rugby Sevens.
Given the extremely strong stereotypes in Thailand about “appropriate” female behaviour, that’s a huge, brave achievement.
(Although I’m not quite so surprised as I might have been had I not played in the Bangkok Rugby Sevens of about 1998 for the British Club. The women’s rugby then was, at least theoretically, “touch” rugby, but as a member of the British Club team I came up against a Thai army team that hadn’t really got that message. Having played full contact rugby myself it didn’t worry me too much, but some members of our team found it a bit of a shock.)
Ah – memories – I’d still love to have played more rugby, but I’m afraid my time for that has passed….
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