APIA, Samoa (Reuters) - There was a time when Alofaaga Sao would bundle 32 coconuts together to use for weight training at his home on the remote palm-fringed Samoan island of Savai'i.
It was rough and ready but it did the trick and now the powerful 21-year-old prop has graduated to doing 140kg squats at a gym in the capital Apia as he targets a place in the Manu Samoa squad for this year's Rugby World Cup.
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