{"id":45164,"date":"2026-07-29T03:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/swimmer-katie-shanahan-turned-down-love-island-and-won-silver-at-commonwealth-games\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T03:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:55:15","slug":"swimmer-katie-shanahan-turned-down-love-island-and-won-silver-at-commonwealth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/swimmer-katie-shanahan-turned-down-love-island-and-won-silver-at-commonwealth-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimmer Katie Shanahan turned down Love Island and won silver at Commonwealth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However Shanahan&#8217;s decision paid off in the pool, and she was seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/videos\/c4g3dj42xdeo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">fighting back tears<\/a> after securing silver on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having been inspired by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/swimming\/articles\/c0e25penll9o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">seeing Hannah Miley in action<\/a> at the 2014 Games, Shanahan told BBC Scotland News she hoped future generations might have be likewise inspired by watching her in the pool this time around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve always said that if I can inspire the next generation of athletes coming through, then my job has been done,&#8221; she explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know after 2014 watching Hannah I felt inspired, and it would be nice to think that maybe there&#8217;s some younger girls watching the 200m backstroke this time, and maybe they&#8217;ll get into swimming from it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She joked that the main problem since last Friday was finding the time to get back to various friends and well-wishers sending her messages to congratulate her.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m so grateful for the support, and with it being a home Games it feels like that support has been ramped up a bit, which is so nice to experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cg4dve90w90o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However Shanahan&#8217;s decision paid off in the pool, and she was seen fighting back tears after securing silver on Friday night. Having been inspired by seeing Hannah Miley in action at the 2014 Games, Shanahan told BBC Scotland News she hoped future generations might have be likewise inspired by watching her in the pool this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45164"}],"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=45164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45166,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45164\/revisions\/45166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}