{"id":10418,"date":"2024-06-21T05:10:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10418"},"modified":"2024-06-21T05:10:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T17:10:08","slug":"nine-debutants-for-nz-mens-7s-in-paris-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10418","title":{"rendered":"Nine debutants for NZ men&#8217;s 7s in Paris Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand men\u2019s 7s head coach Tomasi Cama has selected nine debutants for the Paris Olympics next month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to these new players, 15 seasoned athletes will be returning with hopes of achieving another medal-winning performance.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Curry and Regan Ware are set to participate in their third Olympic Games, with Dylan Collier also among the team\u2019s most experienced members.<\/p>\n<p>Leroy Carter, Tepaea Cook-Savage, Fehi Fineanganofo, Moses Leo, Akuila Rokolisoa, and Brady Rush will be making their first Olympic appearances.<\/p>\n<p>They are the six players from the Tokyo campaign, where the team won a silver medal.<\/p>\n<p>Cama says that they have had to make a lot of big calls throughout the year<\/p>\n<p>already which created healthy competition within the squad and has made their job really hard as coaches.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\">fbc<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand men\u2019s 7s head coach Tomasi Cama has selected nine debutants for the Paris Olympics next month. &nbsp; In addition to these new players, 15 seasoned athletes will be returning with hopes of achieving another medal-winning performance. Scott Curry and Regan Ware are set to participate in their third Olympic Games, with Dylan Collier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10420,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10418\/revisions\/10420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}