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...Mitchell became another casualty of a failure that drives his country mad. More or less constantly since the first Cup in 1987, the All Blacks have been the world's outstanding team. In the years between Cups, they routinely trounce everyone. Yet that first Cup of '87 is the only one they've won. This makes them the Sergei Bubka of rugby - and don't they hate it. "The truth is, we do tend to fall over and we're sick of it," says All Black great Frank Bunce on the eve of the sixth World Cup, which begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back To Blacks | 8/31/2007 | See Source »

...Does the Blacks' Cup history make them chokers? You could argue that, but it's a tough call. At Lansdowne Road, Ireland, in '91, they lost in the semis to a Wallabies team ignited by the mercurial David Campese. In Johannesburg in '95, a food-poisoning outbreak wrecked their preparation for the final, which was won by the hosts in extra time. At Twickenham in '99, France lived up to their somewhat spurious reputation for summoning bursts of inspired attack to overwhelm a Blacks team that had been cruising in their semi-final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back To Blacks | 8/31/2007 | See Source »

...suggestion. At a farewell for the Wallabies in Sydney on Aug. 22, former captain Phil Kearns said the All Blacks had peaked 18 months ago against the British Lions. "They haven't played as well since and I think they're starting to worry," said Kearns, who predicts the Cup favorites will be bidding au revoir in the quarter-finals. The Wallabies' Cup-winning coach of '99, Rod Macqueen, questioned whether the Blacks had the versatility to play more than one style. French mentor Bernard Laporte has accused them of playing to the limit of the rules and exploiting weak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back To Blacks | 8/31/2007 | See Source »

...denial: "The success of our rugby team is important to the psyche of the nation - we understand that, we agree with that and we live by that." Under the former headmaster, the All Blacks have been potent, winning 38 of their 43 matches since the last Cup. In that time, they've dominated the two sides ranked immediately below them, Australia and France, running up 61 points against les Bleus in Wellington in June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back To Blacks | 8/31/2007 | See Source »

...couldn't help feel life has moved on since 1997. Outside the chapel, joggers passed one way through the crowds, newspaper sellers another. In the gardens at Kensington, a handful of rugby players from England's national team were even running through drills ahead of next month's World Cup. The Princes, both fans of the game, would surely have smiled at that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering Princess Diana | 8/31/2007 | See Source »

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