{"id":249316,"date":"2025-10-29T19:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/249316\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T19:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:32:08","slug":"jack-hughes-named-polo-ralph-lauren-ambassador-for-2026-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/249316\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Hughes named Polo Ralph Lauren ambassador for 2026 Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cExcited to finally announce that I am a Polo Ralph Lauren ambassador,\u201d Hughes posted on Instagram. \u201cSo hyped to be sporting #ralphlauren.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2026 will mark the first time NHL players participate in the Olympics since 2014 in Sochi.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes, who is among the United States-born scoring leaders with 14 points (nine goals, five assists) in 11 NHL games this season, represented the USA at the 4 Nations Face-Off in February, and said it was an opportunity to turn a new page for USA Hockey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s the exciting part,&#8221; Hughes said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/jack-hughes-relishing-opportunity-to-represent-united-states-at-4-nations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">before the 4 Nations Face-Off<\/a>. &#8220;Like today is Day 1 of this tournament, but you&#8217;re hoping it&#8217;s kind of Day 1 for a new future for USA Hockey. No one&#8217;s played in the Olympics in, what, 10 years? I think this is a fresh start and a lot of new faces, some high-end players in this tournament that have never played in the Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Olympics begin 100 days from Wednesday, with Opening Ceremonies on Feb. 6. The men&#8217;s ice hockey tournament will start with preliminary games on Feb. 11, with the gold-medal game scheduled for Feb. 22.<\/p>\n<p>NHL.com Senior Writer Amalie Benjamin contributed to this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cExcited to finally announce that I am a Polo Ralph Lauren ambassador,\u201d Hughes posted on Instagram. \u201cSo hyped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-249316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}