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How the Springboks made history in France

Very few rugby fans, if any, would have been able to predict the fashion in which the Springboks would won the Rugby World Cup.

That’s because no team in the history of the Rugby World Cup has ever won their quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals by just a single point.

But it wasn’t just this record that was broken by the Springboks during their historic campaign at the Rugby World Cup in France.

It turns out the Springboks broke various records

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