USA Today · May 25, 2016
NZ 7s coach given some credit for rugby's return to Olympics
LONDON (AP) — Sonny Bill Williams is going in for a try untouched in the left corner when the whistle blows.
He immediately turns, drops to the grass, and presents the ball, which is whisked away to the right.
"Come on Sonny, get back in line," Gordon Tietjens yells.
Williams is back in line right away.
New Zealand's rugby sevens coach, who will pick his Olympic squad in July, doesn't stand for slackers or egos.
What Tietjens wants is 100 percent effort, even in training. "And even if you've only got 50 percent left to give," says Cory Jane, the All Blacks wing who played under Tietjens for three years, "he'll demand you give 100 percent of that 50 percent."