{"id":346631,"date":"2025-08-15T13:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/346631\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T13:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:26:11","slug":"smith-eager-for-ashes-after-outstanding-england-india-series-the-ashes-2025-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/346631\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith eager for Ashes after \u2018outstanding\u2019 England-India series | The Ashes, 2025\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chasing the Olympics dream<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another major tournament outing on the cards for Australia\u2019s seasoned campaigner is featuring in the LA28 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/news\/dates-confirmed-for-cricket-s-return-to-the-olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cricket making a return to the Olympic Games for the first time in 128 years<\/a>, Smith expanded on what it will mean to be a part of the landmark moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve watched a lot of Olympics since I was a young kid and I&#8217;ve really enjoyed watching the Australian athletes go about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I heard that cricket was going to be a part of it, I was like that would be really cool to be involved in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve obviously played in lots of World Cups and Ashes and Border-Gavaskar Trophies and things like that, when this popped up, it was something new.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA new opportunity to represent your country on the world stage. I&#8217;d love to be involved in that. But still a fair bit away, so we&#8217;ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chasing the Olympics dream Another major tournament outing on the cards for Australia\u2019s seasoned campaigner is featuring in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[55796,110170,15034,748,393,4884,15036,68584,19136,12,67469,116343,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-346631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-2025-26","9":"tag-2025-27","10":"tag-app-stream","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-highlighted-news","15":"tag-icc-world-test-championship","16":"tag-la28-olympics","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-steve-smith-10-18-1961","19":"tag-the-ashes","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115033013273444775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}