Ellia Green has been cutting her teeth as a rugby player for four years in the pursuit of an Olympic gold medal. It has cost her a couple of teeth along the way, too.
The so-called fastest woman in world rugby, for a long time Green trained in track and field and had competed at international level for Australia before making a sudden move into the rough-and-tumble sport.
Like so many players in the world series-winning Australian women’s squad, it was games of backyard rugby with a brother as a child that provided the only real hint about the physical demands of the game.