{"id":6316,"date":"2015-05-20T19:16:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T18:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/?p=6316"},"modified":"2015-05-20T19:17:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T18:17:37","slug":"olympic-places-at-stake-as-series-champion-to-be-crowned-at-amsterdam7s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/olympic-places-at-stake-as-series-champion-to-be-crowned-at-amsterdam7s\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic places at stake as series champion to be crowned at #Amsterdam7s"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Olympic places at stake as series champion to be crowned at #Amsterdam7s <\/h1>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Three teams will book their places at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games this weekend during the final round of the World Rugby Women\u2019s Sevens Series in Amsterdam.With the series title race also to be decided at the two-day tournament on Friday and Saturday, it promises to be highly-competitive and compelling viewing.New Zealand became the first women\u2019s team to have secured their Rio 2016 place via the qualification system courtesy of reaching the quarter-finals in London last weekend, and are in an almost unassailable position at the top of the Series standings.<\/p>\n

However, the race for Olympic qualification is still wide-open. Australia, Canada, France, USA, England (Team GB) and Russia can all still secure qualification through the series, avoiding the need to negotiate the regional qualifiers.<\/p>\n

READ: TEAMS GATHER AHEAD OF AMSTERDAM 7s >> <\/a><\/p>\n

World Rugby Chairman Bernard Lapasset said: \u201cWe are set for a thrilling climax to the World Rugby Women’s Sevens Series with the race for Rio 2016 places still wide open.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe quality throughout the series has been outstanding and it’s a reflection of the strength of women\u2019s rugby \u2013 one of the world\u2019s fastest-growing team sports \u2013 that we still have six teams competing for three Olympic places as we head to the final round on Friday in Amsterdam.\u201d<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE FOR FREE HI-RES PHOTOS FROM THE WOMEN’S SERIES >> <\/a><\/p>\n

Matches get underway at the NRCA on Friday at midday (GMT +2) and at 10:00 on Saturday. Tickets for the tournament are still available and can be accessed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE FOR WOMEN\u2019S SEVENS STANDINGS >> <\/a><\/p>\n

Like all other rounds in the series, matches from Amsterdam will be streamed on worldrugby.org<\/b> and fans can find out more about where they can watch the action by clicking here<\/a><\/p>\n

CLICK HERE TO VIEW ALL THE LATEST VIDEOS FROM THE WOMEN’S SERIES >> <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Olympic places at stake as series champion to be crowned at #Amsterdam7s Three teams will book their places at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games this weekend during the final round of the World Rugby Women\u2019s Sevens Series in Amsterdam.With the series title race also to be decided at the two-day tournament on Friday and Saturday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6318,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316\/revisions\/6318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}