{"id":60569,"date":"2023-12-16T04:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T19:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/16\/tackle-training-and-too-many-urinals-new-zealand-women-face-challenges-as-they-flock-to-rugby"},"modified":"2023-12-16T04:00:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T19:00:36","slug":"tackle-training-and-too-many-urinals-new-zealand-women-face-challenges-as-they-flock-to-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60569","title":{"rendered":"Tackle training and too many urinals: New Zealand women face challenges as they flock to rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Participation up 20% since Black Ferns World Cup victory but change rooms and tackle safety among challenges for female players<\/p>\n<p>It is a fairly common situation for any child. One parent says yes and the other says no. The request: could Brooke Harley, a 12-year-old girl from New Zealand, switch from tag rugby to tackle?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just love tackle and letting all my anger out,\u201d said Brooke, from the sidelines of a recent game at west Auckland\u2019s Suburbs rugby football club where she is a member. The interest in tackling came after came alive when Brooke watched the Black Ferns <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2022\/nov\/13\/come-together-as-one-black-ferns-world-cup-triumph-unites-nation\">win the 2022 Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup<\/a> on home turf, whipping the nation into football fever with female athletes at the centre.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/16\/tackle-training-and-too-many-urinals-new-zealand-women-face-challenges-as-they-flock-to-rugby\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participation up 20% since Black Ferns World Cup victory but change rooms and tackle safety among challenges for female playersIt is a fairly common situation for any child. One parent says yes and the other says no. The request: could Brooke Harley, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3833,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,223,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-rugby-union","category-sport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3833"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60570,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60569\/revisions\/60570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}