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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Sport
Tess McClure

All Blacks issue apology after backlash to International Women’s Day tribute

The Black Ferns are reigning world champions and have won five of the last six Women’s World Cups.
The Black Ferns are reigning world champions and have won five of the last six Women’s World Cups. Photograph: Fabien Pallueau/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

The All Blacks have apologised for a “tone deaf” International Women’s Day social media post which praised the team’s wives for supporting them, and featured a player who had assaulted his female partner.

The team issued an apology, admitting “we didn’t get it right”, following an international backlash to the original post, which emphasised women in supporting roles, rather than celebrating New Zealand’s women’s rugby union teams.

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