{"id":214936,"date":"2025-10-21T07:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214936\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T07:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:28:15","slug":"boxer-ben-whittaker-brings-wolverhampton-sports-centre-on-board-ahead-of-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214936\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxer Ben Whittaker brings Wolverhampton sports centre on board ahead of fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His visit was organised through his nutritionist, who has previously collaborated with the university on a number of elite athlete programmes, the university said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The visit not only supported Whittaker&#8217;s training camp but also gave students a rare opportunity to work alongside a world-class athlete and gain experience in elite sports science practice, the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Having an elite athlete of Ben&#8217;s calibre in the building not only showcases the level of applied sport science we deliver, but also highlights the benefit of having world-class sports science facilities here at the University of Wolverhampton,&#8221; said Dr Ross Cloak, associate professor of sport and exercise science and laboratory director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These resources allow us to support elite performers while giving our students invaluable, hands-on experience working directly with world-class professionals during their training camps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The students involved on the day did a fantastic job, and it was great to hear such positive feedback from Ben and his team.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His visit was organised through his nutritionist, who has previously collaborated with the university on a number of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-214936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214936","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=214936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}