Maggie Alphonsi dreams of following England World Cup rugby triumph with Olympic glory in 2016

Every decent loose forward takes a few liberties at times, but watching Maggie
Alphonsi on a rugby pitch could persuade you that she had negotiated an
exemption from the laws of physics as well.




The England flanker is just about the closest thing the sport has ever had to
a perpetual motion machine, her urgent, boundless energy perhaps the biggest
single factor in her country’s World Cup triumph in France last month.




So what now? What to do when the brakes are finally applied? On Monday,
Alphonsi announced that she was ending her international career with
immediate …