{"id":19634,"date":"2024-07-09T15:11:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T15:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/world-rugby-under-20-championship-ireland-v-australia-cancelled-as-pitch-waterlogged\/"},"modified":"2024-07-09T15:11:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T15:11:03","slug":"world-rugby-under-20-championship-ireland-v-australia-cancelled-as-pitch-waterlogged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/world-rugby-under-20-championship-ireland-v-australia-cancelled-as-pitch-waterlogged\/","title":{"rendered":"World Rugby Under-20 Championship: Ireland v Australia cancelled as pitch waterlogged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Ireland&#8217;s final pool game in the World Rugby Under-20 Championship against Australia has been cancelled because of heavy rain in Cape Town. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The game was scheduled to kick off at 13:00 BST at Athlone Stadium but was delayed before eventually being called off. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World Rugby said: &#8220;Final call for Athlone Stadium is that Ireland v Australia is not safe to go ahead and has been cancelled. Two points awarded to each team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Willie Faloon&#8217;s Ireland side, who had won their opening two games, will now progress to the semi-finals as Group B winners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are two other games scheduled to be played at Athlone Stadium today, with France taking on Wales at 16:30 and South Africa hosting England at 19:00.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World Rugby said that &#8220;all other matches are to be advised on a match-by-match basis, updates to follow&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cllyrm3r7d2o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland&#8217;s final pool game in the World Rugby Under-20 Championship against Australia has been cancelled because of heavy rain in Cape Town. The game was scheduled to kick off at 13:00 BST at Athlone Stadium but was delayed before eventually being called off. World Rugby said: &#8220;Final call for Athlone Stadium is that Ireland v [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19636,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19634\/revisions\/19636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}