{"id":31909,"date":"2019-02-05T13:22:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T13:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31909"},"modified":"2019-02-05T13:22:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T13:22:30","slug":"sydney-sevens-usa-runners-up-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31909","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Sevens: USA runners-up &#8230; again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>A new tournament, but the same result for the USA rugby sevens team, who fell to a fourth straight cup final defeat at the Sydney Sevens on Sunday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">For the second time this season, New Zealand got the better of the Eagles in a World Rugby Sevens Series gold medal encounter. The 21-5 victory for the All Blacks sees them tie with the USA at the top of the overall standings. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The wait for silverware goes on for Mike Friday&#8217;s team &#8212; which previously also fell at the final hurdle in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/02\/sport\/dubai-sevens-rugby-new-zealand-usa-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dubai<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/10\/sport\/cape-town-sevens-south-africa-fiji-usa-rugby\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cape Town<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/27\/sport\/hamilton-sevens-new-zealand-rugby-fiji-usa-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hamilton<\/a> &#8212; after tries from Regan Ware, Sam Dickson, and Tone Ng Shiu handed the All Blacks victory with Brett Thompson producing a late reply for the USA. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)A new tournament, but the same result for the USA rugby sevens team, who fell to a fourth straight cup final defeat at the Sydney Sevens on Sunday.For the second time this season, New Zealand got the better of the Eagles in a World Rugby Sevens Series gold medal encounter. The 21-5 victory for the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31909","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\/31909","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=31909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}