Nothing Is Impossible

For the past 4 years, New Zealand's rugby team ,the All Blacks, has dominated the world of rugby. The All Blacks have terrorized and crushed all of their opponents with so little effort that they are highly regarded by many as the best team in the world. In fact, by looking at the scores of their past respective games, it seems that most of their effort thus far has gone into their traditional and trademark Haka ritual pre-game dance. The Haka alone frightened their opponenents.

Throughout the world, it was a foregone conclusion that the All Blacks would beat France in the quater-final of the World Cup 2007. Who are we the kid, France was no match against the All Blacks in their last 6 games. And if the first round of play proved anything, the All Blacks looked invicible in the current World Cup. Of course, when the going gets tough, and the tough gets going, the All Blacks' invicibility ended tonight against France in the quater-final of the World Cup 2007!

Experience is what we call past mistakes. While France had been embarassed and humiliated by the All Blacks for the last 4 years, it has finally learned from its past encounters against them. France finally proved the rugby world wrong by brilliantly applying a strategy to defeat the best team in rugby tonight. In 1999, France had beaten an arrogant and over-confident team in the semi-finals of the world cup back then, when the All Blacks were also considered the very best in rugby. As the saying goes, those who do not learn history are condemened to repeat it.

For the past week in France, the slogan has been Nothing is impossible! Indeed, nothing is impossible in life, espcially in sports! Allez les bleus!