New Zealand winger Julian Savea heading for hero status | Robert Kitson
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The beauty of heavy-duty semi-final between the All Blacks and South Africa is that Savea will be only the second most prolific try-scorer on the fieldSome refer to Julian Savea as “the Big Bus”. A physicist at the University of Auckland has worked out that the All Black winger was travelling at 7.5 metres per second when he scored his third try against France last Saturday and had the kinetic energy of a 10-tonne bus travelling at three kilometres per hour. It does not require a doctorate to work out he will take some stopping at Twickenham on Saturday.Few opponents have achieved it since the…





