If there was a moment that defines women's rugby for Tim Walsh, it came in a sevens pool match in Rio, when Australia's Charlotte Caslick tackled the USA's Victoria Folayan in full flight.
"Charlotte Caslick ran 70 metres across field and just drilled this girl into touch," Walsh said. "And as she was running across her braids were flicking around in the wind, she had ribbons in her hair, she had pink boots on, she was fake tanned up to the max.
"[She] drilled her into touch ... with a very physical tackle, bounced to her feet before the other girl had even taken a breath, turned around, threw her hair over her shoulder and walked away. I was just like, 'That is women's rugby'. That glamour there is going to change women's rugby for a long time."
Walsh was speaking in Sydney on Friday after returning from Rio, where the women's team he coached won the first rugby sevens Olympic gold medals.
Walsh was a guest speaker at a fundraiser for St Andrew's Cathedral School's Rugby Committee with former Wallaby Andrew Blades, now the Wallabies' forwards coach.
Blades said the Pearls' success in Rio provided an important opportunity for rugby to attract more players and larger audiences, especially when women were often the ones making decisions about when - or whether - youngsters would play.
"If we've got a lot more girls playing it, and a lot more girls that may have played when they were younger going in as teachers in schools and ... willing to coach teams, the whole thing's allowed to grow," Blades said.
Australia went to Rio as the women's world sevens champions but Walsh said the Olympics win, against a physical New Zealand side, was a turning point for the sport.
"Winning the world series is one thing, but you don't get a platform like the Olympics to expose your game," he told Fairfax Media. "Being the gold medallists, Australia is in a prime position to make use of that, whether it's funding or investment or the interest in it, getting people to play early."
Walsh said one key to ongoing success at an elite level was creating more pathways into the sport - in schools, where core skills could be developed, at university, and through more high-level competitions. "In an ideal world [the women's competitions would be] merged with the men's tournaments - that enables more games, more players get exposed to it, there's more depth."
Having role models such as Caslick, Alicia Quirk, Shannon Parry, Sharni Williams and Emilee Cherry would encourage more girls to play, Walsh said.
"[They are] elite athletes, world champions that have redefined and reshaped what women's rugby, women's sevens, is all about," he said. "We all know when you're a kid, you want to grow up to wear that gold jersey, to be that person.
"Now that they've got that, we've got to create those opportunities. Everyone is asking, 'How do I play?' [The Olympic win] spiked a lot of interest and it's just making sure that the girls that want to play have an avenue to go and play."