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Jarryd Hayne is back in the National Rugby League, less than three months after quitting the San Francisco 49ers so he could make an ultimately failed attempt to play rugby sevens for Fiji at the Rio Olympics.The Gold Coast Titans announced Wednesday that Hayne had signed a two-year contract, and hes set to begin playing this weekend, subject to a fitness test, as part of the deal.Financial details werent disclosed, but Australian media said the contract was worth 1.2 million Australian dollars ($914,000) a season.The Parramatta Eels, the team Hayne began his NRL career with before leaving in 2014 for the 49ers, appeared to have not made an offer, leaving the Titans to add one of Australian sports most recognizable and talented players to their roster. His already high profile was only enhanced by his NFL stint.It wasnt the easiest decision for me to make ... very emotional, Hayne said at a media conference. I never thought Id ever join another club, but I guess everything happens for a reason. A part of me is sad as Im not going to be part of the club I grew up with.So instead of playing for a team based in working-class western Sydney, Hayne will suit up for an up-and-coming side -- the youngest in the 16-team competition -- on the glitzy Gold Coast tourist strip south of Brisbane.Hayne will likely make his debut on Sunday for the Titans, who are at home against the New Zealand Warriors. With five regular-season rounds left in the season, and the top eight teams make the playoffs, the Titans are currently seventh.Just get my body right and get in shape and the rest will look after itself, Hayne said.The 25,000-seat stadium at Robina on the Gold Coast could be filled to capacity to watch the Hayne Plane make his competitive return in Australia.We are expecting a massive turnout, Titans chief executive Graham Annesley said.In mid-May, Hayne announced his retirement from the 49ers in order to push for selection in the Fiji rugby sevens team for the Rio de Janeiro Games.I simply could not pass that chance up, Hayne said at the time. The Olympics has been something I have admired since I was a little boy.The 28-year-old Hayne surprisingly made the initial 53-man roster out of training camp as a rookie running back last year with San Francisco. Playing eight games with one start, he had 17 carries for 52 yards and six catches for 27 yards while also returning eight punts for 76 yards.His rugby sevens career turned out to be even shorter. Hayne struggled to adapt to the pace and fitness demands of sevens -- a modified version of the traditional rugby in which teams play several matches in tournaments which last two to three days.And it didnt help that Fiji has one of the best sevens sides in the world and could win the countrys first Olympic gold medal -- or medal of any color -- when the Rio mens tournament is held from Aug. 10-12.Hayne began his NRL career in 2006, and he scored 103 tries in 176 matches for the Eels. But Parramatta has been involved in a salary cap scandal this season which has seen the club stripped of competition points and had team executives banned.Hayne once wrote a letter to club supporters saying if he ever returned to the NRL, it would definitely be with Parramatta. 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In the second half, Woodman put Jessy Tremouliere on her back, and set up Kayla McAlister for the last try in the 26-7 win.Against the Americans, Woodman smashed over Lauren Doyle to force a turnover. The quarterfinal was distinguished by defense, especially when New Zealand led by five and played a woman down for two minutes with 3 1/2 minutes to go. They held on.Of her big hits, Woodman said, I was just vibing off all the girls. Were pretty much all connected, and when someones firing, were all firing.She said they trained often to deal with yellow cards, and knew what to do when Tyla Nathan-Wong was sin-binned for a late tackle.All we could think was coach saying, `Youve got two minutes, six players, tough it out, she said. Its tougher to do mentally than physically because you aalways know youre one down, and theres so much more space there.dddddddddddd Its crazy how much the difference one person makes.Her try originated from a scrum, McAlister drew two defenders on the halfway line, and Woodman out-ran them on the outside to the posts.Shes a superwoman, she said of McAlister. She brings in two players and leaves me out there wide, so its an easy job for me. All my tries have come from her.It seems so. They have become one of the great partnerships in rugby. Both were netballers who were among more than 1,100 who answered a `Go4Gold initiative in 2012 to put together a New Zealand womens sevens team for these Olympics. They stood out immediately, developed a seemingly telepathic understanding, and were key to New Zealand winning the first three womens world series, and the Sevens World Cup.McAlister, whose brother Luke was an All Black, was the first world womens sevens player of the year in 2013, and Woodman was honored in 2015.Woodman is the all-time leading try-scorer in womens world series history, with 119 over four seasons. Shes been top try-scorer in the series three times, and last year became only the fifth player -- man or woman -- to score more than 50 tries (52) in a single series.Her father, Kawhena, and uncle Fred were All Blacks in the 1980s, and she said shes followed her dads advice on the field since she was aged 7, and beating boys.My Dad told me way back when I started, she said, just get the ball and run like heck. ' ' '