{"id":721413,"date":"2026-01-26T07:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T07:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/721413\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T07:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T07:39:20","slug":"ive-had-tough-times-and-hidden-behind-a-mask-ace-ni-snowboarder-on-how-she-overcame-a-lack-of-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/721413\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019ve had tough times and hidden behind a mask\u2019: Ace NI snowboarder on how she overcame a lack of confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Olympian will anchor this year\u2019s TNT Sports coverage of the Winter Games in Italy\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aimee Fuller\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6189_Aimee_Fuller__.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)\">Aimee Fuller<\/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)\">Two-time Olympian Aimee Fuller has confessed that personal problems and a lack of confidence destroyed her hopes at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.<\/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 snowboarder travelled to South Korea as a genuine medal contender in Big Air and Slopestyle, but failed to produce her best at her second Winter Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olympian will anchor this year\u2019s TNT Sports coverage of the Winter Games in Italy Aimee Fuller Two-time Olympian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[58911,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-721413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-keith-bailie","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115960267671006252","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721413","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=721413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}