BRENDAN GALLAGHER recalls the glorious arrival of Rugby Sevens to the Commonwealth Games

BRENDAN GALLAGHER

Best of the best: Jonah Lomu tries to get away from Waisale Serevi in the final
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Winning in style: New Zealand celebrate with the Haka in 1998

The passage of time can play tricks but I’ve always thought, much against the odds, that the 1998 Commonwealth Games Sevens in Kuala Lumpur was one of the very best rugby occasions I’ve witnessed and certainly one of the most important. And occasionally bizarre, more of which anon.
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