Welsh fire, England captain - how Meg Jones became a dual-nation icon

Welsh fire, England captain - how Meg Jones became a dual-nation iconImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Meg Jones has won 35 for caps for England as well as travelling to three Olympics - Rio 2016, Tokyo 2021 and Paris 2024 - as part of the Great Britain Sevens set-upByMike HensonBBC Sport rugby union news reporterPublished9 minutes agoAsked to pick her favourite rugby memory, Meg Jones side-steps the obvious.England's Rugby World Cup win back in September may be the pinnacle of her professional career, but Jones spools back a few more years to when the stage was smaller, but, for her, the stakes were just as high - a trial for Cardiff Schoolboys Under-12 team."It was just one of those turning points in your journey," Jones tells BBC Sport."I was the only girl. I had trialled the year before and not got in. That was the first time I'd ever faced some sort of rejection or maybe things not going my way within the game."Jones wasn't concerned that her gender was counting against her. Instead she saw parental bank balances tipping the selection scales."It was very much the rich boys who got in," she says."If your dad was rich, you were probably getting in. My dad was a pipefitter welder from Cardiff, so I was part of a very working-class family. The team I played for - Glamorgan Wanderers - were from a very low socio-economic area in Cardiff, called Ely."I spoke to one of the boys from that trial literally years later and he said: 'You know, I was meant to be selected for that, but you were so good they had to pick you.'"That day just cemented all the values and beliefs that I had in this game: If you're good enough, you're good enough. No matter where you're from, what you look like, what gender you are, whether you're big, small, all these things, if you're good enough, you will be respected."England v WalesWomen's Six NationsSaturday 25 April, 14:15 BSTAshto...