Ruby Tui grateful for rugby sevens World Cup after mumps fall
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BEN STRANG
Last Updated 16:43, 10 July 2018
GETTY IMAGES [19659005] Ruby Tui helped New Zealand win the last three World Series tournaments of the season
Every year New Zealand medical professionals treat up to 30 cases of mumps, half of them in children under 10 years old.
more than 90% since the introduction of a vaccine, the vaccinated persons being considered extremely unlikely to contract mumps.
Yet, in the weeks leading up to the Commonwealth Games in April, Ruby Tui began to feel sick. Despite her jabs at 15 months and four years, she had contracted a disease almost wiped out by modern medicine.
She can laugh now unbelievable chances that she was at the bad end of April, but the experience has made Tui all the more grateful that she was heading towards the World Cup in San Francisco this month
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"There is always a positive side and it is definitely a," said Tui. "I'm probably a lot more grateful than some because I've been eliminated from the last pinnacle tournament."
GETTY IMAGES [19659005] Ruby Tui caught mumps before the Commonwealth Games, preventing him from participating in the tournament.
"For a rugby player, this is not new. It happens all the time. In 2013, the last World Cup, I did my ACL and I needed a knee operation before the tournament, so it's part of being a professional athlete but it's really special to go to this one, absolutely.
Try to control everything they can to succeed: their health is their livelihood, they eat well, train hard, avoid risks.
That is why Tui's resounding laughter projects into the room by recalling the mumps episode. The chances were so slim that it would never happen.
"We ended up having to review everyone's medical history, and almost everyone was vaccinated, but there is still a small chance you can catch mumps." 19659019] " It does not matter if I'm vaccinated. It did not matter that I am in good health. I mean, you ask the girls, I'm the one who goes around with the hand sanitizer, I'm very strict about it.
"The strange thing was, I think that there was a person [in the team] who had not been vaccinated, had his jab, but we still have him in the l '. team.
"I think the doctor was saying that even though I was vaccinated, you were still immune only to 97%, so three percent have that chance."
With Tui , one of the first names of coach Allan Bunting who debuted seven times in great form, outside of the Commonwealth Games, there was a minor reshuffle with the 26-year-old. ..
New Zealand continued to claim for gold, which would have brought back memories of 2013, when Tui's surgery meant that she was missing the World Cup in Russia, another tournament that New Zealand won without her.This time, touch wood, Tui will line up in a pinnacle event, even if she was nursing a minor blow to the team naming Tuesday, the result of a series intense testing games the day before.
"It could be said means a lot more for me, but this trial was the next level", Dec. Laré Tui
"I can say hand in hand, we could have taken two teams of seven at this tournament. It was really hard, there were tears and discussions. That means a lot for each of these girls
"We meet teams that are really physical, some teams are very good at the game of ball, some teams are excellent at the game. But when we play, they stay physical, good at set-up, tick all the boxes
"You must be very good at everything and then have a little something extra, otherwise this team is impossible to reach."
The New Zealand camp has the feeling that if two teams were allowed in San Francisco, one or the other could win the tournament.
They support their skill level against any team in the world and believe that their desire and their hunger success distinguishes them
Nobody has more talent, desire and hunger than Ruby Tui.
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