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Ex-NRL star Semi Radradra makes Fiji Olympics team, Fiji vs All Blacks

Dual international Semi Radradra has done just about everything across the two rugby codes.

Now, the former Parramatta Eels flyer turned Flying Fijian can put the Olympic Games on his resume too.

It was exactly the same message Rugby Australia tried to sell Joseph Suaalii when trying to lure the talented teen across to the 15-person game last year. Travel the world, play at the Olympics and then represent your country at a World Cup – the third biggest global sporting event.

Fiji’s players pray after victory in the men’s rugby sevens gold medal match against Britain during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Deodoro Stadium. AFP PHOTOSource: AFP

Radradra, 29, who left the NRL in 2017, has been included in Fiji’s Olympics team as the Island Nation attempt to defend their gold medal from five years ago in Rio.

Nor is he a Sevens novice either, having stood up New Zealand star Kurt Baker at…

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