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How the All Blacks learned to unleash the haka

New Zealand rugby side ready to lay down ferocious challenge to rivals at Rugby World Cup

Scrum-half Aaron Smith leads the New Zealand haka before the All Blacks Test match against South Africa in July. (Photo: AFP)

WELLINGTON – Before France take on New Zealand in the opening match of the Rugby World Cup on Friday evening, the hosts will have to face the ferocious challenge laid down by the All Blacks in the haka.

“In a rugby game, if you want victory, you have to come and get it — it’s either you or us,” Dr Taku Parai, an elder from the Ngati Toa iwi Maori tribe, told…

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