Rugby 7 '09

Rugby 7..... Never had a clue why people are so excited about this hostile, contact sport.

This year I had a chance to participate in the sideline of the medical team. What an honour!! It explains the craziness of the game. It's exactly the same as the reason why I was so into Hockey years ago.

The atmosphere was fantastic. Most of them are foreigners. That's probably an explanation for the craziness. We love the crowd, love the music, love the cheer, love the game. If I wasn't on the sideline, I am probably the girl holding up a cup of beer dancing at the bench. There were a group of people from Fiji sitting right behind us. They brought their own mini guitar to play the music, and sang along. They are not professional singers, but you can only feel the true happiness from these people from their wonderful voice.

The rugby game was not as hostile as I thought. There are tackles, knock downs, grabbing people's shirt, pushing and more pushing. Watching closely and you will find out, that you are either going to get into a fight, or stopping people from getting into the fight. I personally think that handball is actually more dangerous in the way of tackle and knocking down ppl. Rugby is very fun to watch, esp the way they pile up like stacking tower (Jenga). Then it's a game of running and making plays to fool the opponents. You don't need to be super smart, just a little, but necessary to be fast, decisive, short reaction time, superb agility and wide sighted.

In between the men's pool game, there was a women's final, Aussie vs Chinese. The Aussie girls are huge and faster which led them to championship. Steph and I were watching the game together. Suddenly she turned to me and said, "I think you would be pretty good at this game. I saw resemblance of you, when you were fighting & hassling with Wing in class."

Me, "I think so too. It's fun, and I don't think there are a lot of people who can lift me up and throw me on grass."

Rugby 7s has already been organized in Hong Kong since 1976. It only attracted more countries to participate every year. It was wonderful to see different races in a venue for an event. Once again, I experienced the unity of the world in the name of sports.

The Canadians in the audience just played the National anthem with their little trumpet. Well, we lose everything in sports, but honestly, our spirits never die. Forever patriotic