The first game of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_South_Africa_rugby_union_tour_of_New_Zealand_and_the_United_States" id="mwASE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1981 South Africa rugby union tour of New Zealand and the United States">1981 South Africa rugby union tour of New Zealand and the United States</a> is held in Gisborne, New Zealand. <sup about="#mwt48" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"}}' id="cite_ref-7" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./July_22#cite_note-7" id="mwASI" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwASM">[7]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"><cite about="#mwt45" class="citation web cs1" id="mwBnE"><a class="external text" href="https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/28-12-2021/three-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-1981-springboks-tour-2" id="mwBnI" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Three things you didn't know about the 1981 Springboks tour"</a>. 28 December 2021.</cite><span about="#mwt45" class="Z3988" id="mwBnM" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=Three+things+you+didn%27t+know+about+the+1981+Springboks+tour&amp;rft.date=2021-12-28&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fthespinoff.co.nz%2Fatea%2F28-12-2021%2Fthree-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-1981-springboks-tour-2&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJuly+22"></span></span>