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Maddison Levi ignores a knee injury to score a superb double as Australia wraps up the women's rugby sevens World Championship in France.

The ACT Brumbies have been dumped out of the Super Rugby Pacific finals series after setting unwanted club records in Wellington on Friday. 

For an athlete still in the early stages of her professional career, Australian rugby 7s player Kaitlin Shave has already experienced the highs and lows of sport.

History is stacked against the Brumbies and Reds surviving week one of the Super Rugby Pacific finals, which kick off on Friday evening.

An unbeaten tournament victory in Spain gives Australia a chance of claiming the men's World Championship, with the title to be decided in this weekend's final round.

Queensland Reds coach Les Kiss knows his side will be underdogs in this weekend's Super Rugby qualifying final, a match that could be his last with the club. 

Australia puts itself in pole position to win the women's rugby sevens World Championship, while the men's team also enjoys the spoils of victory in Spain.

The threat of relegation hangs over the Australian men's rugby sevens squad ahead of the final two rounds of the World Championship series.

Just as NSW Blues coach Laurie Daley had a difficult selection decision to make, Joe Schmidt may be thinking long and hard about one position in the Wallabies' back line for July's Nations Championship Tests.

When Isabella Nasser tuned in to watch the 2016 Rio Olympics as a 13-year-old, she had little idea of the pathway her life was about to take.