{"id":384207,"date":"2026-04-17T12:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/384207\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T12:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:49:07","slug":"fiji-thumps-great-britain-24-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/384207\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiji thumps Great Britain 24-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fiji Airways Men&#8217;s National 7s side has just won their second game at the Hong Kong 7s, thumping Great Britain 24-10.<\/p>\n<p>Finley Lloyd-Gilmour drew first blood for Great Britain to give them an early 5-0 lead before\u00a0Terio Veilawa struck to equal the scores at 5-5.<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd-Gilmour got his second try just before halftime for them to lead Fiji 10-5.<\/p>\n<p>Filipe Sauturaga got Fiji back into the game, scoring in the 9th minute to put Fiji in the lead 12-10.<\/p>\n<p>Tomasi Vuluma further extended Fiji&#8217;s lead after scoring a double in the 13th and 15th minute making it 24-10.<\/p>\n<p>Fiji demolished Germany 42-5 in their first pool game and\u00a0will next play France at 4.13pm tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>In other games, France beat Germany 35-0, Spain thumped South Africa 31-12, Argentina thrashed Uruguay 40-19, France outplayed Great Britain 22-7, South Africa beat Uruaguay 12-7.<\/p>\n<p>The Men&#8217;s Cup quarterfinals start at 10.03pm tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The Cup semifinals are at 6pm Sunday while the Cup final at 11.14pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fiji Airways Men&#8217;s National 7s side has just won their second game at the Hong Kong 7s,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[199412,111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-384207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-hong-kong-7s-fiji-thumps-great-britain-24-10","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}