{"id":32587,"date":"2012-05-04T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/dr-plays-canada-for-the-olympics\/"},"modified":"2012-05-04T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T01:43:56","slug":"dr-plays-canada-for-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2012\/05\/04\/dr-plays-canada-for-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"DR plays Canada for the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The DR continues in its quest to qualify for the London summer Olympics today, Friday 4 May when it plays Canada at the North, Central America and Caribbean (Norceca) Women&#8217;s Continental Olympic Qualification Tournament taking place in Tijuana, Mexico. The DR, Cuba, Canada and Puerto Rico are playing the semi-finals. To follow the games, see norceca.org<\/p>\n<p> Back in the 2008 Olympic qualifier in Monterrey, Mexico, Canada upset the Dominican Republic (27-25, 25-17 and 25-19) in the semis but lost to Cuba in the final. Cuba will match Puerto Rico today. <\/p>\n<p> The championship game will be played on Saturday and the winner advances to the 2012 Olympic Games in London.<\/p>\n<p> If the DR fails to win the tournament, its last qualifying opportunity for London will be in the world tournament playoffs, scheduled for next May in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DR continues in its quest to qualify for the London summer Olympics today, Friday 4 May when it plays Canada at the North, Central America and Caribbean (Norceca) Women&#8217;s Continental Olympic Qualification Tournament taking place in Tijuana, Mexico. The DR, Cuba, Canada and Puerto Rico are playing the semi-finals. To follow the games, see &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2012\/05\/04\/dr-plays-canada-for-the-olympics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[231,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}