{"id":9567,"date":"2021-08-02T05:31:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T05:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/sa-under-18-to-georgia-called-off\/"},"modified":"2021-08-02T05:31:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T05:31:46","slug":"sa-under-18-to-georgia-called-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=9567","title":{"rendered":"SA Under-18 to Georgia called off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-9543\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/NewsG_Junior_Springboks_Mudpath.jpg\" alt=\"NewsG Junior Springboks Mudpath\" width=\"380\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/NewsG_Junior_Springboks_Mudpath.jpg 473w, https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/NewsG_Junior_Springboks_Mudpath-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/>SA Rugby and the Georgia Rugby Union (GRU) announced on Friday that the planned SA Under-18 tour to Georgia had been called off due to the prevalence of positive COVID cases in both countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The SA U18s were due to depart to Europe on Saturday for a tour of four matches next month, but following discussions between SA Rugby and the GRU, with inputs from the Georgian government, it was decided to call off the tour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe\u2019ve just gone through a very tough third wave and we\u2019re still not out of the woods here in South Africa, and numbers are also rising in Georgia, which is why the mutual decision was made to cancel the tour,\u201d said Jurie Roux, CEO of SA Rugby.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cIt\u2019s never easy to make such decisions, but the health of our players remains our first priority. We would like to thank our friends in Georgia for being proactive in this matter, and for their assistance and understanding.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Issued by SA Rugby Communications<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SA Rugby and the Georgia Rugby Union (GRU) announced on Friday that the planned SA Under-18 tour to Georgia had been called off due to the prevalence of positive COVID cases in both countries. The SA U18s were due to depart to Europe on Saturday for a tour of four matches next month, but following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}