{"id":271259,"date":"2025-11-19T07:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271259\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T07:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:57:07","slug":"ex-rugby-player-from-henley-takes-on-atlantic-rowing-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271259\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-rugby player from Henley takes on Atlantic rowing challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A former England rugby sevens player is taking on a 3,000 nautical mile (4,828 km) rowing challenge for several charities supporting Motor Neurone Disease (MND).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ollie Phillips, from Henley on Thames, will be rowing with three other friends across the Atlantic Ocean as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldstoughestrow.com\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">world&#8217;s toughest row, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The challenge starts next month in La Gomera in the Canary Islands and finishes at English Harbour in Antigua, the journey is expected to take 35 to 45 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Phillips told BBC Radio Berkshire: &#8220;This will be my toughest challenge yet because of the lack of sleep, we will be rowing two hours on, two hours off and won&#8217;t get a full nights kip.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former England rugby sevens player is taking on a 3,000 nautical mile (4,828 km) rowing challenge for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-271259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271259","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=271259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}