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SMILING TO THE WORLD CUP

It’s a smile that’s beamed across stadiums and around the rugby world.

As he lines up a kick at goal, Damian McKenzie looks up and smiles. The cameras love it, zooming in on the almost cheeky half grin.

“It’s to loosen me up a bit,” McKenzie says of the smile, adding that it was an idea suggested to him by sports psychologist David Galbraith.

“He told me not to overthink it, to relax and enjoy the kick, and the smile came from that,” McKenzie says.

For his part, Galbraith told the a few years ago that he had

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