{"id":49820,"date":"2026-04-02T12:13:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/welsh-commonwealth-games-hopeful-freya-jones-devastated-by-broken-javelins\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T12:13:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:13:30","slug":"welsh-commonwealth-games-hopeful-freya-jones-devastated-by-broken-javelins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/welsh-commonwealth-games-hopeful-freya-jones-devastated-by-broken-javelins\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh Commonwealth Games hopeful Freya Jones devastated by broken javelins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Welsh record holder Jones, who is targeting the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, was the British champion in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year she was runner-up at the UK Championships for a fourth time when throwing a new personal best of 56.53 metres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the broken javelins have hit her bid for success in Glasgow, with the women&#8217;s final at Scotstoun Stadium on Saturday, 1 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With my entire focus on making the team for the Commonwealth Games, this couldn&#8217;t have come at a more devastating moment,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To have all of my javelins damaged at this point in the season is incredibly tough. They&#8217;re not only expensive, but they&#8217;re such a personal part of what we do as throwers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/c17vwe1jlejo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welsh record holder Jones, who is targeting the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, was the British champion in 2020. Last year she was runner-up at the UK Championships for a fourth time when throwing a new personal best of 56.53 metres. However, the broken javelins have hit her bid for success in Glasgow, with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[1981,5465,6285,14457,1556,4274,14458,1674,2084],"class_list":["post-49820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-broken","tag-commonwealth","tag-devastated","tag-freya","tag-games","tag-hopeful","tag-javelins","tag-jones","tag-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49822,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49820\/revisions\/49822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}