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It may have been just a consolation-round win for Canada’s men’s rugby sevens team on the weekend in Paris, but it was a high note nonetheless.

Sure, a little more grit on Saturday could have landed the Canadians a pair of wins and a second straight spot in the top eight, but hey, that’s been the story all season, as time and again, they came up just short of breaking into the game’s upper tier.

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It was a frustrating year, one that started with a players’ strike, had just two top-eight finishes, and saw the coach fired.

“Given the circumstances, I think it was a positive way to finish things off. Not the result we wanted on Day 1, but 3-0 on Day 2 nowadays isn’t always easy to come by,” captain Harry Jones told Postmedia via text message on the weekend.

And now the Canadians can turn their eyes to a bigger, bolder task in front of them: making the Olympics.

A month from now, because the Americans have qualified directly due to their second overall World Rugby Sevens Series standings finish, the Canadians will be the nearly 100 per cent favourites in the North American Tokyo 2020 qualifying tournament.