Wallabies deny Lions a tour clean sweep in wild 3rd test

By Canadian Press on August 2, 2025.

SYDNEY (AP) — The Wallabies prevented a British and Irish Lions clean sweep of its Australian tour with a rousing 22-12 win in the third rugby test on a night of wild weather Saturday at Sydney’s Olympic Stadium.

Tries to wingers Dylan Pietsch, Max Jorgenson and scrumhalf Tate McDermott highlighted one of the finest performances by the Wallabies in recent years and came amid a wild storm that led to a near-hour pause in the game due to nearby lightning.

Having secured the three-match test series with victory in the first tests at Brisbane and a contentious, last-gasp 29-26 loss last week in Melbourne, the tourists were seeking to be the first Lions squad to record an unbeaten tour since 1974.

But despite strong support among the capacity near 90,000 crowd the Lions were never really in this one as the Wallabies won the early physical exchanges and moved the ball better throughout despite consistent rain squalls that swept across the ground regularly on a bitter cold and windy night in Sydney.

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Keiran Smith, The Associated Press