"We'd all like to have all our great players at the Olympics to win the gold medal but that's not guaranteed either. "When you do that you're taking away peoples' choices of what game they want to play... that's not the way you run your business or the way you treat your employees." However, Hansen added: "Everyone will come back and review the process and we'll learn some lessons as we always do. The New Zealand men won only one match at the Olympics - against Kenya - losing to Japan, Great Britain, and finally, Fiji. Hansen said it was important not to "paper over things" as New Zealand Rugby, the sevens team, and the All Blacks try to get to grips with what was a build-up riven by conflicts between winning a gold medal and winning test matches.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 11, 2016 07:04 UTC