{"id":25092,"date":"2018-12-11T11:23:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T11:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25092"},"modified":"2018-12-11T11:23:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T11:23:08","slug":"fiji-wins-cape-town-sevens-usa-tops-rankings-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25092","title":{"rendered":"Fiji wins Cape Town Sevens, USA tops rankings for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Fiji won its first World Rugby Sevens Series title of the season in Cape Town with a 29-15 victory over USA Sunday. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">It was Fiji&#8217;s first victory on South African soil since 2005 and comfortably the nation&#8217;s best showing in Cape Town having finished fifth in the two previous editions of the tournament. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The USA was appearing in back-to-back finals for the first time ever having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/02\/sport\/dubai-sevens-rugby-new-zealand-usa-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">lost out to New Zealand in Dubai<\/a>. But despite the defeat, the Eagles climbed to the top of the overall standings for the first time, two weeks into the season. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Fiji won its first World Rugby Sevens Series title of the season in Cape Town with a 29-15 victory over USA Sunday. It was Fiji&#8217;s first victory on South African soil since 2005 and comfortably the nation&#8217;s best showing in Cape Town having finished fifth in the two previous editions of the tournament. The USA&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}