cricket making a return to the Olympic Games for the first time in 128 years<\/a>, Smith expanded on what it will mean to be a part of the landmark moment.<\/p>\n\u201cI’ve watched a lot of Olympics since I was a young kid and I’ve really enjoyed watching the Australian athletes go about it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I heard that cricket was going to be a part of it, I was like that would be really cool to be involved in.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ve obviously played in lots of World Cups and Ashes and Border-Gavaskar Trophies and things like that, when this popped up, it was something new.<\/p>\n
\u201cA new opportunity to represent your country on the world stage. I’d love to be involved in that. But still a fair bit away, so we’ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chasing the Olympics dream Another major tournament outing on the cards for Australia\u2019s seasoned campaigner is featuring in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[46337,12827,5101,64,63,740,5103,12826,55833,44,85,55834,33383],"class_list":["post-71120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-2025-26","tag-2025-27","tag-app-stream","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-highlighted-news","tag-icc-world-test-championship","tag-la28-olympics","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-steve-smith-10-18-1961","tag-the-ashes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71120","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=71120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}