How a very rude comment from a cult hero Aussie prime minister inspired our rugby sevens team to create history in Paris

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How a very rude comment from a cult hero Aussie prime minister inspired our rugby sevens team to create history in Paris

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Forty-one years after his words inspired Australia to a famous America's Cup victory, the late Bob Hawke has done it again. It was the former Prime Minister who Australia's men's sevens coach John Manenti turned to before the team left their Paris Olympic village to play the United States in a quarter-final. They won 18-0. In 1983 Hawke told Australia II skipper John Bertrand to 'destroy the bastards' before they did just that to end a 132-year US stranglehold on the cup.
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