{"id":388124,"date":"2026-04-20T03:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/388124\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T03:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:03:09","slug":"fiji-7s-teams-bow-out-in-cup-quarterfinals-fbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/388124\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiji 7s teams bow out in Cup quarterfinals \u2013 FBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Fiji-7s-1.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[Source: File]<\/p>\n<p>Fiji Airways Fiji men\u2019s and women\u2019s 7s teams have both been eliminated in the Cup quarterfinals at the Hong Kong 7s, bringing an early end to their title hopes.<\/p>\n<p>The Fiji Men\u2019s 7s side went down 24-17 to Argentina in a tightly contested encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina built momentum through tries from Santiago Alvarez and Marcos Moneta, while Fiji responded through Apete Narogo, Joseva Talacolo and Viwa Naduvalo.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a late push, Fiji were unable to close the gap.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In the women\u2019s quarterfinal, the Fiji Women\u2019s 7s team suffered a heavy 45-5 defeat to Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The Australians dominated from the outset, leading 26-0 at halftime before extending their advantage in the second spell.<\/p>\n<p>Fiji\u2019s only points came through a try to Adi Vani Buleki.<\/p>\n<p>The double quarterfinal exit marks a disappointing outcome for Fiji, with both teams now shifting focus to the remaining classification matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Source: File] Fiji Airways Fiji men\u2019s and women\u2019s 7s teams have both been eliminated in the Cup quarterfinals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-388124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388124","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=388124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}