{"id":319407,"date":"2026-02-27T03:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/319407\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T03:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:24:12","slug":"zaur-antia-to-reunite-with-billy-walsh-as-he-takes-up-us-boxing-role-for-la-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/319407\/","title":{"rendered":"Zaur Antia to reunite with Billy Walsh as he takes up US boxing role for LA Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"USA coach Billy Walsh, left, and Ireland coach Zaur Antia at the Paris 2024 Olympic Boxing Qualification Tournament at E-Work Arena in Italy. Photo: Ben McShane\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2758620.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)\">USA coach Billy Walsh, left, and Ireland coach Zaur Antia at the Paris 2024 Olympic Boxing Qualification Tournament at E-Work Arena in Italy. Photo: Ben McShane\/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)\">Former Ireland boxing supremo Zaur Antia is to reunite with Billy Walsh in a coaching capacity as they bid to ignite USA&#8217;s Olympic boxing programme for the LA Games.<\/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)\">Antia, 62, finished up as the IABA&#8217;s head of coaching in November after spending over 20 years producing 10 Irish Olympic medallists and multiple world champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USA coach Billy Walsh, left, and Ireland coach Zaur Antia at the Paris 2024 Olympic Boxing Qualification Tournament&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":["post-319407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319407","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=319407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}