{"id":129446,"date":"2025-09-11T07:51:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T07:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/129446\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T07:51:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T07:51:03","slug":"keely-hodgkinson-eyes-world-gold-after-most-challenging-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/129446\/","title":{"rendered":"Keely Hodgkinson eyes world gold after &#8216;most challenging year&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To that extent, Hodgkinson views everything which could follow as a bonus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The challenges of the past year have provided a sense of freedom rarely granted to Olympic champions &#8211; and which she is unlikely to have felt since her most recent visit to Tokyo thrust her into the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She has taken the opportunity to rebuild solid foundations, with her increased strength reflected in personal bests in the gym, and says she has emerged as determined as ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hodgkinson is expected to meet M11 Track Club training partner Georgia Hunter Bell in the 800m final on 21 September, following the Olympic 1500m bronze medallist&#8217;s decision to switch events after running the third-fastest time this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re really hoping for some big things out there. It would be amazing for the M11 group if we could do a one-two, and I definitely think we&#8217;re capable of doing that,&#8221; Hodgkinson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This year has definitely given me a sense of slowing down and enjoying the process, being grateful that I can run and, when I can, [making sure] I&#8217;m going to enjoy everything, give it everything and probably complain a bit less,&#8221; she joked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I just want to enjoy it, because there was definitely a period of time that I didn&#8217;t think I was going to be here.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To that extent, Hodgkinson views everything which could follow as a bonus. The challenges of the past year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-129446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}