\n| A thrilling day of action in Amsterdam has seen Canada and Australia qualify for next year\u2019s Olympic Games and New Zealand claim the Women\u2019s Sevens Series for the third year in a row.It’s still all to play for in Amsterdam on Saturday, as USA, France and England are all in with a chance of securing a spot at Rio 2016.<\/p>\n Saturday’s quarter-finals will see Australia play Russia, England face a massive battle for the last Olympic position as they play New Zealand, the in-form USA take on Spain and Canada will play France.<\/p>\n CLICK HERE FOR A RECAP OF AMSTERDAM 7s DAY ONE >><\/p>\n Speaking after securing the third Olympic spot from the series, Canadian captain Jen Kish said: “It’s been hard work and a long process for us. To finally get to Rio and have our dreams become a reality is amazing. We’re going for a strong day two as we want to leave Amsterdam, not only going to Rio, but with the cup as well,” she added.<\/p>\n Australian captain Sharni Williams was delighted to finally reach a goal that was set out at the start of the season: (exclusive bonus for Wonky Wabbits game) “It’s been a long time coming…but the job is not done yet because we’re here for the tournament and to get into the finals.”<\/p>\n New Zealand had already booked their place in the Olympics, when they qualified at the London 7s last weekend.<\/p>\n CLICK HERE FOR FREE HI-RES PHOTOS FROM THE WOMEN’S SERIES >><\/p>\n The quarter-finals get underway at the NRCA Stadium on Saturday at 10am (GMT +2). Tickets for the tournament are still available and can be accessed here.<\/p>\n CLICK HERE FOR WOMEN\u2019S SEVENS STANDINGS >><\/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<\/p>\n CLICK HERE TO VIEW ALL THE LATEST VIDEOS FROM THE WOMEN’S SERIES >><\/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":" Canada and Australia secure Olympic spots as New Zealand win women’s series Canada and Australia secure Olympic spots as New Zealand win women’s series A thrilling day of action in Amsterdam has seen Canada and Australia qualify for next year\u2019s Olympic Games and New Zealand claim the Women\u2019s Sevens Series for the third year in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2448,17361,6263,3959,7311,9526],"class_list":["post-86781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-australia","tag-canada","tag-olympic","tag-rugby","tag-secure","tag-spots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86781"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87290,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86781\/revisions\/87290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |