{"id":726861,"date":"2026-08-04T04:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T04:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726861\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T04:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T04:48:10","slug":"dorset-teen-destined-for-bigger-things-says-olympic-boxing-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726861\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorset teen destined for &#8216;bigger things&#8217; says Olympic boxing champ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A teenage boxer is destined for &#8220;bigger things&#8221; after clinching silver at her first Commonwealth Games, says Olympic champion, Nicola Adams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dorset&#8217;s Ruby White, 19, competed in the Flyweight final on Saturday, against India&#8217;s Sakshi Chaudhary, after an eight-year unbeaten run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After having three &#8220;comfortable wins&#8221; at the games in Glasgow, White told the BBC, she &#8220;cried her eyes out&#8221; under pressure before taking on her bigger, more experienced opponent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adams was a surprise guest for Ruby on BBC Radio Solent earlier and said: &#8220;I watched how you [White] carried yourself through the whole championships and I believe that you will come back bigger and stronger and move on to bigger things&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage boxer is destined for &#8220;bigger things&#8221; after clinching silver at her first Commonwealth Games, says Olympic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-726861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726861","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=726861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}