New Zealand sevens captain Sarah Goss, centre, was sideline running the waters for her club team Feilding Old Boys-Oroua during the Manawatu club final against Kia Toa on Saturday.

After four years of training and hype, New Zealand women's sevens captain Sarah Goss just wants to get to the Olympics and play rugby.

The team for next month's Rio Olympic Games was named last week and Manawatu's Goss will lead the women's side, and after working towards Rio for such a long time, she was looking forward to finally playing at the Olympics.

"I suppose it was hard when the team got named, knowing some of your team-mates had missed out and obviously they'd worked really hard to make it," she said. "But it's just nice being able to focus on one thing and everyone's got that one goal in mind of working hard and hopefully performing at the Olympics."

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Goss, 23, said it has been a long road working towards the Olympics since the women's sevens team started seriously building towards the games four years ago.

"Back in 2012 we first played our first few tournaments and from then that's when the world series started and it's been full on ever since."

Australia are firming as favourites for Brazil, having won the world series this year.

"Aussie are going to be one of the toughest competitions and there's also teams like Great Britain, with who they're going to have, and Canada are also there or there abouts.

"We've also got a tough pool with Spain and France in our pool and at times they've tested us. But for us it's going to be good and we always talk about if you want to be the best, you've got to beat the best, so we're going to take anyone in our stride and hopefully put in good performances."

The Kiwis also have Kenya in their pool.

In group A is Australia, the United States, Fiji and Colombia, while in group C is Canada, Great Britain, Brazil and Japan.

Teams always get up to play New Zealand, so no matter who they play it will be tough.

"You can watch a team play and they will not play so well. Then they play us and play out of our skin so for us.

"We've just got to be on top of it right from the get go."

At the Olympics the sevens tournament is over three days, rather than two, with only two games a day, but Goss didn't believe it would make too much of a difference and said you have to learn how to get your mind off rugby in between games.

They did a simulation in Australia and she said it went well.

The team has two more camps in New Zealand before flying to Florida on July 22 for a week of training, along with the New Zealand men's team, to get used to the heat, then head to Rio six days before the games start.

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