{"id":1263,"date":"2025-12-16T12:43:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2026-01-20T14:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:39:14","slug":"south-africa-crushes-wales-in-record-breaking-73-0-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/16\/south-africa-crushes-wales-in-record-breaking-73-0-victory\/sports\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa Crushes Wales in Record-Breaking 73-0 Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/900x506_cmsv2_d1c699e5-f65e-5750-9ae4-fa0802c2505e-9566470.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/900x506_cmsv2_d1c699e5-f65e-5750-9ae4-fa0802c2505e-9566470.avif 900w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/900x506_cmsv2_d1c699e5-f65e-5750-9ae4-fa0802c2505e-9566470-300x169.avif 300w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/900x506_cmsv2_d1c699e5-f65e-5750-9ae4-fa0802c2505e-9566470-768x432.avif 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>RUGBY: The South Africa\u2019s Springboks crushed Wales 73-0 in Cardiff, handing the hosts their heaviest home defeat ever and keeping them scoreless for the first time in decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Springboks scored 11 tries, marking their highest tally against Wales under coach Rassie Erasmus and their 13th win in 15 games this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The victory was marred late on as Springbok lock Eben Etzebeth received a straight red for an eye gouge, facing a minimum 12-week ban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the setback, South Africa finished the season as the world\u2019s top ranked team ahead of the 2027 World Cup draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cycling: Eritrea Crowned Overall Champion at 2025 African Continental Road Championships Eritrea excelled at the 2025 Africa Cycling Championship in Kenya, held from 20 to 23 November, clinching a total of 10 medals across both genders: 3 gold, 5 Silver, and 2 bronze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The standout performances came at the final road race on 23 November, where Olympian Merhawi Kudus won gold in the elite category, Awet Aman took gold in the under-23 group, and Natan Medhanie claimed gold in the junior category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other notable achievements included Nahom Efrem (silver, junior), Mewael Germay (silver, under-23), and in the women\u2019s events: Adiam Tesfu (silver, junior time trial), Monaliza Araya (bronze, under-23), Suzana Fesehaye (bronze, under-23), and Birikti Fesehaye (silver, road race), highlighting Eritrea\u2019s growing dominance in African cycling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUGBY: The South Africa\u2019s Springboks crushed Wales 73-0 in Cardiff, handing the hosts their heaviest home defeat ever and keeping them scoreless for the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1266,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/1266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}