{"id":380892,"date":"2026-04-15T15:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/380892\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:46:17","slug":"very-excited-lisa-carrington-announces-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/380892\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Very excited’: Lisa Carrington announces pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"

RNZ Digital reporters<\/a><\/p>\n

The country’s most successful Olympian, Dame Lisa Carrington, is pregnant with her first child.<\/p>\n

However, in making the announcement on social media on Wednesday Carrington said the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028 remained her goal.<\/p>\n

“This is some of the greatest news I’ve ever shared\u2026 Bucky [Michael Buck] and I are expecting!,” Carrington said in her post.<\/p>\n

“We are so ready for this next chapter and couldn’t be more excited to begin our journey into parenthood.”<\/p>\n

Dame Lisa said the baby was due in September and the couple would not be finding out if it was a boy or a girl.<\/p>\n

“Pregnancy so far has been a real learning curve – but feeling very lucky and very excited for what’s to come.”<\/p>\n

While the Olympics were still in her mind “right now, my focus is on navigating this pregnancy”.<\/p>\n

She intended to race at the World Cups in Europe in May but not at the world championships or any other event after the World Cup ones this year.<\/p>\n

“And yes, @cavoodle_colin is very excited about becoming a big brother,” she said.<\/p>\n

Dame Lisa is an eight-time Olympic champion canoeist. She won three gold medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the K1, K2 and K4 boats.<\/p>\n

Last year she said she was excited by the prospect of competing at her fifth Olympics in LA.<\/p>\n

“In both sport and life, there are no guarantees, so I think the only real option is to make the most of the moment and whatever path you’re on.<\/p>\n

“We all have big dreams, and I want to help my teammates achieve them.”<\/p>\n

Carrington was awarded one of the Olympic movement’s highest honours late last year, receiving the Association of National Olympic Committee Outstanding Sporting Career Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ Digital reporters The country’s most successful Olympian, Dame Lisa Carrington, is pregnant with her first child. However,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-380892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}