ROSEMARY ABBOTT | Sport
GLORY DAYS
For Tara Peattie, the mere mention of the women’s rugby sevens team clinching gold against Canada at the Paris Olympics was enough to send her spiralling into a haze of nostalgia.
“I heard about the girls winning the gold medal on the radio during my drive to work this morning,” Tara recounted as she had flashbacks of her days as a blind drunk 20 year old at the Wellington Sevens.
“It made me think back to 2012 when I was draped in a bedsheet toga, clutching a plastic cup of some watered down overpriced beer, and shouting incoherently,” she said as she remembered the glory days of the Wellington Sevens before it was ruined by the fun police.
In those days it was certainly the event that you didn’t want to miss. Tickets were often snapped up within seconds and then sold on Trade Me for nearly five times as much.
“Back then, it felt like the entire city of Wellington was a giant party for two days and no one thought it was weird. It was pure chaos, but the best kind.
“I mean how fun was it getting a photo with a policeman? Bring back the Wellington Sevens!”
More to come.
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