{"id":351941,"date":"2026-03-18T04:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/351941\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T04:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:00:12","slug":"its-nice-because-financially-i-know-im-not-scrimping-kate-oconnor-no-longer-going-under-radar-against-worlds-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/351941\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s nice because financially, I know I\u2019m not scrimping\u2019 \u2013 Kate O\u2019Connor no longer going under radar against world\u2019s best"},"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\">After last year\u2019s success Dundalk athlete looks to improve and compete with pentathlon queen Anna Hall at World Indoors in Poland\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kate O'Connor: &quot;I will be turning up fighting for the gold. If I don\u2019t turn up with that mindset, then it\u2019ll never happen.&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sports3371709.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)\">Kate O&#8217;Connor: &#8220;I will be turning up fighting for the gold. If I don\u2019t turn up with that mindset, then it\u2019ll never happen.&#8221;<\/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)\">The task is just the same, but this year feels different \u2013 in various ways. For starters, Kate O\u2019Connor is now a full-time athlete, having completed her studies at Ulster University, with more time and energy freed up to devote to mastering the multi-events.<\/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)\">But the underdog status she enjoyed in 2025, that shock factor she unleashed in Apeldoorn, Nanjing and Tokyo? That\u2019s gone. When the 25-year-old takes to the track in Torun, Poland, at the World Indoor Championships next Sunday, the attention will be inescapable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After last year\u2019s success Dundalk athlete looks to improve and compete with pentathlon queen Anna Hall at World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[16452,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-351941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cathal-dennehy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351941","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=351941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}