{"id":1292,"date":"2021-09-14T01:42:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T01:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2021-09-14T01:42:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T01:42:04","slug":"france-withdraws-from-vancouver-and-edmonton-7s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"France withdraws from Vancouver and Edmonton 7s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"story-header\" data-id=\"377383\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fbcnews.com.fj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/94229995_3139485479424448_6804566036227031040_o-1500x800-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Mexico men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams will be part of this weekend\u2019s Vancouver 7s and next week\u2019s Edmonton 7s in Canada.<\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"story-content\">\n<p>The Mexicans were added to the event following the late withdrawal of France\u2019s teams due to Covid-19 related international travel logistics issues.<\/p>\n<p>This means the teams that will make up the women\u2019s competition are Great Britain, hosts Canada, USA and Mexico<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The women\u2019s fast four competition format, which was previously successfully employed at the men\u2019s Series event in Hamilton in 2019, will see all teams play each other before the top two play for gold and the other two teams compete for third place.<\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver 7s kicks-off at 4:44am on Sunday with USA taking on Hong Kong, the quarterfinals, semi-finals and final will be held next Monday.<\/p>\n<p>-FBC NEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams will be part of this weekend\u2019s Vancouver 7s and next week\u2019s Edmonton 7s in Canada. The Mexicans were added to the event following the late withdrawal of France\u2019s teams due to Covid-19 related international travel logistics issues. This means the teams that will make up the women\u2019s competition are Great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,6],"tags":[59,141],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-sports","tag-featured","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1294,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/1294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}