{"id":793930,"date":"2026-07-11T17:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T17:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/793930\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T17:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T17:27:08","slug":"rugby-aaron-grandidier-nkanang-scores-twice-on-france-debut-in-nations-championship-win-over-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/793930\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby: Aaron Grandidier-Nkanang scores twice on France debut in Nations Championship win over Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/aaron-grandidier\" 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Australia 42-26 in the second round of the Nations Championship at Lang Park in Brisbane on Saturday (11 July).<\/p>\n<p>The London-born wing, who won gold with France&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/sports\/rugby-sevens\/\" 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Jalibert&#8217;s kick early in the second.<\/p>\n<p>Australia led 21-12 at half-time after flanker Fraser McReight crossed twice, while France&#8217;s Emmanuel Meafou, who scored the game&#8217;s opening try, sat in the sin-bin for a high tackle. Replacement hooker Brandon Paenga-Amosa also touched down for the hosts.<\/p>\n<p>France took control after the break, scoring 30 points without reply through Grandidier-Nkanang, Romain Ntamack, Florian Verhaeghe\u00a0and Theo Attissogbe. Jeremy Williams&#8217; late try earned Australia a bonus point but couldn&#8217;t prevent a sixth successive defeat.<\/p>\n<p>The result gave France, who lost to New Zealand last week, a first win in Brisbane since 1972 and a fourth straight victory over Australia. They face Japan in Tokyo next, while the Wallabies meet Italy in Joe Schmidt&#8217;s final game in charge before Les Kiss takes over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Grandidier-Nkanang scored two tries on his France debut as Les Bleus came from behind to beat Australia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-793930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}