'Honey badger' does the hard yakka in Rio rugby bid

World XV's Nick Cummins (L) of Australia is tackled by Japan's Michael Leitch (top) and Male Sau (bottom R) during their international rugby test match in Tokyo August 15, 2015. REUTERS/Yuya Shino

SYDNEY (Reuters) - From ploughing through Norwegian snowfields to running in the red dirt of Australia's remote Northwest, Wallabies winger Nick Cummins had prepared himself as best he could for the return to the high octane world of sevens rugby.

It was never going to be enough, though, and after his first session with the Rio-bound Australia squad on Wednesday, he joked that had it gone on any longer, he would have been choosing a tree on which to empty the contents of his stomach.