{"id":166106,"date":"2026-04-18T21:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=166106"},"modified":"2026-04-18T21:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:02:12","slug":"defending-champions-return-as-hk-sevens-celebrates-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=166106","title":{"rendered":"Defending champions return as HK Sevens celebrates 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsstatic.rthk.hk\/images\/mfile_1851191_1_M_20260415154716.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>The Hong Kong Sevens kicks off this Friday, with last year&#8217;s champions eager to defend their titles at a particularly special edition &ndash; the tournament&#8217;s 50th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>Captains from all 24 teams competing in the Sevens World Series gathered with the media on Wednesday, alongside the skippers of the Melrose Claymores competition&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1851191-20260415.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hong Kong Sevens kicks off this Friday, with last y [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}