{"id":620894,"date":"2026-10-05T03:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/620894\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T03:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:32:10","slug":"completely-in-love-dame-lisa-carrington-welcomes-baby-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/620894\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Completely in love&#8217;: Dame Lisa Carrington welcomes baby girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Kiwi Olympic great Dame Lisa Carrington has welcomed her first child, saying she and husband Michael &#8216;Bucky&#8217; Buck are &#8220;completely in love&#8221; with their newborn daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The 37-year-old kayaker, New Zealand&#8217;s most decorated Olympian, announced the birth with a post to social media today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Our beautiful baby girl is here,&#8221; she wrote in the caption of the video accompanied by Six60&#8217;s song Rivers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;We are completely in love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Dame Lisa had already ruled herself out of this year&#8217;s world championships after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/04\/15\/olympic-great-dame-lisa-carrington-announces-pregnancy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">revealing her pregnancy<\/a>, but said she was still targeting the LA 2028 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">In April she described pregnancy as an adjustment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Pregnancy so far has been a real learning curve &#8211; but feeling very lucky and very excited for what&#8217;s to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Dame Lisa has won eight Olympic gold medals across four Games, including three in Tokyo and three more in Paris in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiwi Olympic great Dame Lisa Carrington has welcomed her first child, saying she and husband Michael &#8216;Bucky&#8217; Buck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,5106,213],"class_list":["post-620894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-olympics","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620894","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=620894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}