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Fiji got on the board in the fourth minute when skipper Jerry Tuwai produced a trademark burst of speed to score under the posts for a 7-0 advantage.<\/p>\n
Australia had a huge chance to go into halftime level, but Lachie Anderson dropped the ball over the line in the right corner after some nice footwork and speed in the lead-up from Maurice Longbottom.<\/p>\n
In the second half, Fiji stayed in control with some brutal defence, including a bone-jarring hit on Henry Hutchison that led to a try to Aminiasi Tuimaba.<\/p>\n
The elusive veteran Tuwai also crossed for his second try.<\/p>\n
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Ultimately, the Aussies were left to rue their opening day defeat to Argentina<\/a>, which added to a win over South Korea<\/a> and a loss to New Zealand, consigned them to third place in Pool A and a harder quarter-final draw.<\/p>\n Australia will play South Africa tomorrow to decide the minor placings, the best possible result being fifth. Australia finished eighth in Rio.<\/p>\n Fiji will face Argentina in the semi-finals while Great Britain and New Zealand will clash in the other semi.<\/p>\n The women's tournament starts on Thursday when Australia – the defending Rio Olympic champions – come up against host nation Japan and China.<\/p>\n For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Australia's men's rugby sevens team are out of medal contention in Tokyo following a comprehensive 19-0 loss to defending Olympic champions Fiji. The Aussies had […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106496,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106494\/revisions\/106496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}