Canada's Rugby World Cup campaign ended with a disappointing cancellation, but that didn't stop the team mucking in to help with Japan's typhoon recovery efforts.
Their Pool B game in Kamaishi against Namibia was cancelled by World Rugby just six hours before the scheduled start on Sunday because of flooding and landslides near the stadium caused by Typhoon Hagibis.
"I believe we would have won today. That would have given us a sense of an outcome. This feels like there's no outcome at the moment. It's a bit raw," Canada coach Kingsley Jones said.
"I feel the team's grown, but we haven't actually been able to measure our growth.
"The opposition were about the same level as us. We wanted to measure ourselves here," he said.
But the team put that disappointment aside, and soon after was caught on camera helping clean up.
"Following the cancellation of their match in Kamaishi, @RugbyCanada players headed out to help with recovery efforts, showing the true values of the game," the a post on the official Rugby World Cup Twitter account said. It featured a video showing the team cleaning up.
"Amazing scenes and brilliant to see from the team."
Recovery efforts are under way across Japan in the wake of the typhoon.
Tens of thousands of troops and recovery workers have been deployed across the country, cleaning up, working to save stranded residents and helping to combat flooding.
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