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Her only other appearance on the series in 2015-16 was in the opening weekend in Dubai, a disastrous affair which saw the injury-hit Canadians stumble to a sixth-place finish. She did score seven tries on the weekend, however.

“Try to make me believe that Magali Harvey would be the 13th player of a national team in any country,” Harvey’s dad told Le Journal.

Harvey hasn’t always been a first-choice for the sevens squad. Her fifteen-a-side credentials are without doubt: she was the 2014 world player of the year. But in the 2014-15 sevens season, she missed selection for three straight tournaments, as the coaches pressed the whole team on the need for heightened consistency in all facets of the game.

“There’s lots of room for individual flair in sevens, but you have to respect your opposition, and the people around you need to know what you’re likely to do. I think in the past, Mags has at times probably tried a little too hard and tried to do too much with the ball,” Tait told the National Post a year ago, ahead of the Pan Am Games in Toronto. Harvey was picked for that event.

The squad is still to be confirmed, but there are some names you can assume as locks: captain Jen Kish, Kayla Moleschi, Karen Paquin, leading scorer Ghislaine Landry, Kelly Russell, Bianca Farella, Brittany Benn and then now-healthy Ashley Steacy. This leaves four spots, which positional needs will dictate.

Kish, Moleschi, Russell and Paquin have all generally been used as forwards, with Moleschi occasionally filling in as the scrum-half/sweeper. With Steacy back, she’ll be the first-choice scrum-half. Landry has also played there but is usually found in the wider attacking spaces; it’s a similar story for Britt Benn and Bianca Farella.