{"id":18368,"date":"2024-06-07T13:06:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T13:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/2024-paris-olympics-team-gb-announce-olympic-boxing-squad\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T13:06:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T13:06:53","slug":"2024-paris-olympics-team-gb-announce-olympic-boxing-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/2024-paris-olympics-team-gb-announce-olympic-boxing-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Paris Olympics: Team GB announce Olympic boxing squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Team GB have named six boxers that will represent Great Britain at the 2024 Olympics in Paris.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Super-heavyweight Delicious Orie, heavyweight Pat Brown, light-middleweight Lewis Richardson, middleweight Chantelle Reid, welterweight Rosie Eccles and bantamweight Charley Davison are all included.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Colchester fighter Richardson was the last of the group to qualify, having only secured his place <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/articles\/cjllr02d885o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">last week in Thailand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Davison, 30, is the only fighter in the squad to have previous Olympic experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Davison was knocked out at the quarter-final stage in Tokyo three years ago but has moved weight from flyweight to bantamweight for Paris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Qualifying for a second time means a little bit more to me,&#8221; she said.  &#8220;I am a much more experienced boxer now and I know what to expect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Orie, 27, won <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/commonwealth-games\/62456872\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">gold at the Commonwealth Games in 2022<\/a> and is one of the favourites of the group to secure a medal in Paris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Russian-born Briton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/66070706\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">qualified alongside Davison and Welshwoman Eccles<\/a> at the 2023 European Games last June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eccles won gold alongside Orie at the Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/66933819\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">missed out on a place at Tokyo 2020<\/a> after contracting coronavirus three times before the qualifying process was cut short by the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The boxing squad go into the Games with big expectations after the Tokyo team returned home with six medals, including two golds from Galal Yafai and Lauren Price.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The GB boxers have always been an important and integral part of Team GB,&#8221; Team GB chef de mission Mark England said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The six selected today bring real talent, character and personality to the team and we\u2019re all looking forward to seeing how they perform at the Games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/c900d7d5w3ko\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team GB have named six boxers that will represent Great Britain at the 2024 Olympics in Paris. Super-heavyweight Delicious Orie, heavyweight Pat Brown, light-middleweight Lewis Richardson, middleweight Chantelle Reid, welterweight Rosie Eccles and bantamweight Charley Davison are all included. Colchester fighter Richardson was the last of the group to qualify, having only secured his place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18370,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18368\/revisions\/18370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}