{"id":101662,"date":"2015-10-02T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/101662\/rugby-world-cup-big-hits-and-the-biggest-hit\/"},"modified":"2019-05-20T12:58:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T10:58:44","slug":"rugby-world-cup-big-hits-and-the-biggest-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2015\/10\/02\/rugby-world-cup-big-hits-and-the-biggest-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby World Cup&#8217;s biggest hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Jonny Wilkinson drop-goal to Carlos Spencer\u2019s through-the-legs pass against the Boks in the 2003 edition, to Jonah Lomu\u2019s job on Mike Catt in 1995 right here on home soil \u2013 the list goes on.<\/p>\n<p>The game\u2019s most exciting point is arguably tries: people love to see them scored\u2026 but there\u2019s another exciting aspect of the game that\u2019s just as important: the tackle.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>There\u2019s been great tries scored in the World Cup over the years and there have been memorable hits as well\u2026just as the videos below depict.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy some bone-crunching hits from World Cups past, and arguably the biggest hit in the game\u2019s history.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Lookout for the last comment on the second video. &#8211; @SabeloBoksburg<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/mrdUL77JYvw' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brian &quot;The Chiropractor&quot; Lima HUGE hit on Derick Hougaard\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uxLoS0k-68g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='bf4bce0f50754e8e01aae6cf68676218'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rugby World Cup is rightly the game\u2019s biggest showpiece with the game\u2019s most memorable moments coming from rugby\u2019s biggest tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":101665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sabelo Mashego","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8670,7566,8671],"class_list":["post-101662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-jonah-lomu","tag-rugby-world-cup","tag-rugby-world-cup-big-hits"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["jonah lomu","Rugby World Cup","rugby world cup big hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}