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Natasha Watcham-Roy is sitting on pins and needles these days. But that’s a whole lot better to deal with than the two separate injuries and rehab stints she had to endure during a recent six-month stretch.

Or so you would think.

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Two months after helping Canada win the women’s sevens rugby gold medal at the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto, the Gatineau athlete was sidelined with back-to-back lower-body injuries. She was out of action for three months each time, first with an undisclosed knee injury and then with an injury she politely refused to discuss. That meant plenty of rehab, selective training and a good dose of worry as she missed Canada’s first four of five tournaments in the world rugby women’s sevens series with an Olympic team berth for the 2016 Rio Summer Games on the line.

But when she returned to full health in April, she was assigned to play for Canada’s Maple Leafs developmental team in the London Sevens Invitational. After that, Canadian team head coach John Tait declared her fit to join the main team for the final Rugby world women’s sevens series tournament in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Canada defeated Australia 29-19 in the final in France to finish the season in third place behind champion Australia and New Zealand.