{"id":13235,"date":"2012-08-07T02:10:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T00:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-3-olympics-hockey-kiwis-in-first-semis-argentina-through\/"},"modified":"2012-08-07T02:10:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T00:10:03","slug":"update-3-olympics-hockey-kiwis-in-first-semis-argentina-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-olympics-hockey-kiwis-in-first-semis-argentina-through\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-Olympics-Hockey-Kiwis in first semis, Argentina through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Updates with later matches)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Annika Breidthardt<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON<\/span> Aug 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Argentina are two matches away<br \/>\nfrom fulfilling their skipper&#8217;s dream of Olympic gold and from<br \/>\nholding all three major international hockey titles, after<br \/>\nfighting their way to the top of their group with a goalless<br \/>\ndraw against Australia.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In their semifinal on Wednesday, Argentina will meet<br \/>\nBritain, who qualified despite losing 2-1 to the Netherlands,<br \/>\nthanks to a 1-0 Japanese victory over China.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Titleholders the Netherlands, who finished top of their<br \/>\ngroup without dropping a point, will play against New Zealand, a<br \/>\nside in their first Olympic semifinal.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Losing to the United States (earlier this week) made us<br \/>\nstronger,&#8221; said Argentine skipper Luciana Aymar, a record<br \/>\nseven-time world player of the year who has won every major<br \/>\ntitle but Olympic gold.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Aymar, whose team are world champions and champions trophy<br \/>\ntitleholders, plans to retire after London.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now it&#8217;s step by step, I&#8217;m only thinking of the semifinal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Australia was dominant in the first 15 minutes but for all<br \/>\ntheir possession they found no way to break through Argentina&#8217;s<br \/>\ndefence or force serious chances on goal.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Updates with later matches) By Annika Breidthardt LONDON Aug 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Argentina are two matches away from fulfilling their skipper&#8217;s dream of Olympic gold and from holding all three major international hockey titles, after fighting their way to the top of their group with a goalless draw against Australia. In their semifinal on Wednesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-13235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}