A Brazilian women’s rugby sevens player has become the first athlete to receive a marriage proposal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.
Isadora Cerullo, 25, was a member of the Brazil squad that narrowly missed out on reaching the knockout rounds.
After the medal ceremony following the first women’s rugby sevens final in Olympic history on Monday had ended, Marjorie Enya, Cerullo’s girlfriend and a manager at Deodoro Stadium, asked her to marry her.
“I wanted to show that live wins”
… unlike the Brazil national women’s rugby team.
@js
Typoe alert… 🙂
Ball dykes??
Watching the mens’ diving is like spying on a San Franciso bath house.
Not that i would know, ahem..
I was watching the ladies rugger and was pretty surprised at the quality. Compared to ladies football,this was much more exciting and skilful. I was particularly impressed by how teams took advantage of their opponents’ errors. Some of these .. er.. girls had only been playing a couple of years.
The team that Canada put up against GB in the 3rd place match looked especially scary.
Have they renamed any of the positions, e.g. Hooker?
@dearieme
Hookers are still called Hookers in ladies rugby.
The jokes are the same old jokes as used in the men’s game.
@BnLiA
In NZ and Australia, touch rugby has been very popular as a girls/women’s game for quite a while now and many of the skills picked up in that form of the game transfer well to 7s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXMz4QSMFqs
I always found touch rugby utterly useless. It’s as jessie as basketball. if you have an instinct to go in to rip the ball, then not going in is very hell. Anyway most rugby players need to improve their tackling, so bloody tackle.
Otherwise play football (the indoor five-a-side version of which I always thoroughly enjoyed).