{"id":1712,"date":"2024-07-09T02:28:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T02:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/phoebe-gill-team-gb-teenager-hoping-for-ton-of-fun-at-paris-games\/"},"modified":"2024-07-09T02:28:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T02:28:03","slug":"phoebe-gill-team-gb-teenager-hoping-for-ton-of-fun-at-paris-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/phoebe-gill-team-gb-teenager-hoping-for-ton-of-fun-at-paris-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoebe Gill: Team GB teenager hoping for &#8216;ton of fun&#8217; at Paris Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She clocked a personal best of 1:57.86 in Belfast in May, setting a new European Under-18 record in the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And she followed that up by beating Jamie Reekie into second place at the trials in Manchester in a time of 1:58.66. Reekie was also second in the 800m at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championship in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I had been so stressed out that entire weekend [in Belfast], I couldn&#8217;t wait to get it over with. I was so locked in the zone on that start line; I was ready and buzzing with adrenalin,&#8221; said Gill, from St Albans, in Hertfordshire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked what she is expecting in Paris, she replied: &#8220;A ton of fun. The hard bit is over. There&#8217;s no expectation. I&#8217;m 17 coming into the Games, it&#8217;s my first time with a GB vest; I just can&#8217;t wait to experience it all. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m starting young, so hopefully there&#8217;s a few [more] coming up.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/c28ew243nv4o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She clocked a personal best of 1:57.86 in Belfast in May, setting a new European Under-18 record in the process. And she followed that up by beating Jamie Reekie into second place at the trials in Manchester in a time of 1:58.66. Reekie was also second in the 800m at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1714,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/1714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}