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New Zealand hails Covid-free days with record rugby crowd

For the first time in his four years as in-charge of the iconic Eden Park in Auckland, Nick Sautner says he witnessed a near-stampede at the turnstiles last Sunday. A 15-year record crowd of 43,000 poured in for the Super Rugby encounter between the Blues and Hurricanes, though Sautner says the atmosphere was so electric that he felt it was twice that number. “Has to be one of the best nights at this famous ground…One of the most historic, too,” he says. Though