{"id":164799,"date":"2025-11-28T19:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/164799\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T19:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:56:12","slug":"conor-mckeon-the-perfect-ending-to-kellie-harringtons-career-is-for-her-to-decide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/164799\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McKeon: The perfect ending to Kellie Harrington\u2019s career is for her to decide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Putting the gloves back on for a possible crack at LA 2028 makes sense for someone who lives and breathes boxing\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland's emotional Kellie Harrington with her gold medal at the 2024 Olympics in Paris. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/9a1bec94-b054-4aa2-9011-e3953030f4ee.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ireland&#8217;s emotional Kellie Harrington with her gold medal at the 2024 Olympics in Paris. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In the same way as James Cameron hadn\u2019t much scope to write a sequel to Titanic, it really does feel as though this Kellie Harrington comeback lacks any narrative footing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">What are we doing here? This had all been resolved. The Tokyo epic. The Parisian sequel. Where is the basic conflict now? What could constitute a more blissful end to a story than the one with two Olympic golds? Another national title? Hardly. Another Olympics? Hmmm. Maybe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Putting the gloves back on for a possible crack at LA 2028 makes sense for someone who lives&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7277,61,60,63491,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-164799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-conor-mckeon","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-kellie-harrington","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}