{"id":610982,"date":"2025-12-04T05:26:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T05:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/610982\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T05:26:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T05:26:18","slug":"hannah-scott-olympic-winner-opens-up-on-tough-decision-to-represent-team-gb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/610982\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah Scott: Olympic winner\u00a0opens up on \u2018tough\u2019 decision to represent Team GB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hannah Scott has spoken about representing Team GB for the first time.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0304d6b7-f736-4f26-9df1-5f92c8d7adfc.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Hannah Scott has spoken about representing Team GB for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Olympic gold medallist Hannah Scott has reflected on the \u201ctough\u201d and often misunderstood decision she faced in choosing to represent Team GB, saying it is a dilemma \u201cnot many athletes in the world will ever have to navigate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Coleraine-born rower (26), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/sport\/olympics\/hannah-scotts-message-after-becoming-third-ni-athlete-to-win-olympic-gold-in-paris-thriller-just-go-for-it\/a1886173356.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who won gold in Paris last year<\/a>, posted what she described as a \u201cscary\u201d and long-considered message on social media this week, setting out publicly for the first time the thinking behind her choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hannah Scott has spoken about representing Team GB for the first time. Olympic gold medallist Hannah Scott has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1249,1144,7126,30454,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-610982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-kurtis-reid","14":"tag-northern-ireland","15":"tag-olympics","16":"tag-paris-2024-olympics","17":"tag-scotland","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610982","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=610982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}