{"id":32284,"date":"2026-04-17T14:49:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=32284"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:49:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:49:21","slug":"blitzboks-split-results-as-springbok-women-lose-in-hong-kong-sevens","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/blitzboks-split-results-as-springbok-women-lose-in-hong-kong-sevens\/","title":{"rendered":"Blitzboks split results, as Springbok Women lose in Hong Kong Sevens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The South African men\u2019s sevens team, Blitzboks had mixed results on day one of the Hong Kong event, while the women lost both their matches.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The men beat Uruguay 12-7 in their opening encounter, but Spain gave them a 31-12 hiding in the 2nd match.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The Blitzboks will have to beat Argentina on day 2 to keep their chances alive.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The women\u2019s team lost 33- 0 against Australia in their opening game.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Canada also ran away with the scoreline in their 2nd game, beating the South Africans 31- 0.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The South African women take on Great Britain in their final group game on day 2.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20623,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-32284","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The Blitzboks will have to beat Argentina on day 2 to keep their chances alive. \u00a0","published_date":"","news_description":"The Blitzboks will have to beat Argentina on day 2 to keep their chances alive. \u00a0","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32285,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32284\/revisions\/32285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=32284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}