{"id":5318,"date":"2024-10-03T17:39:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T17:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/new-zealand-query-france-plans-to-rest-stars-for-tour\/"},"modified":"2024-10-03T17:39:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T17:39:09","slug":"new-zealand-query-france-plans-to-rest-stars-for-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/new-zealand-query-france-plans-to-rest-stars-for-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand query France plans to rest stars for tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">New Zealand have asked World Rugby to clarify France&#8217;s plans not to select some of their top stars for next summer&#8217;s three-Test tour against All Blacks.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The French rugby union announced on Monday that, as part of an agreement with the country&#8217;s clubs, it would not select players competing in the domestic Top 14 final for the national team&#8217;s summer fixtures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World Rugby has a rule \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.world.rugby\/organisation\/governance\/regulations\/reg-9\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">regulation nine<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> \u2013 that specifies players must be made available for international selection during designated periods in the calendar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The global governing body says the spirit of the rule is &#8220;integral to&#8230; the best interests of the sport&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are seeking further information and clarification from both World Rugby and the French union to better understand the situation,&#8221; New Zealand Rugby said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cwylpd9dz79o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand have asked World Rugby to clarify France&#8217;s plans not to select some of their top stars for next summer&#8217;s three-Test tour against All Blacks. The French rugby union announced on Monday that, as part of an agreement with the country&#8217;s clubs, it would not select players competing in the domestic Top 14 final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5320,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318\/revisions\/5320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}