{"id":118913,"date":"2026-04-24T18:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/london-marathon-is-my-everest-matt-hampson\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T18:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:10:06","slug":"london-marathon-is-my-everest-matt-hampson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/london-marathon-is-my-everest-matt-hampson\/","title":{"rendered":"London Marathon is my &#8216;Everest&#8217; &#8211; Matt Hampson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than two decades after a life-changing injury, former England Under-21 rugby star Matt Hampson is tackling his &#8220;Everest&#8221; at the 2026 London Marathon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Navigating the course in a custom racing chair while ventilator-dependent, he is supported by a dedicated team including former jockey Sir AP McCoy, with the aim to help other young people through the Matt Hampson Foundation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">WATCH MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\" class=\"ssrcss-jbu701-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Athletics video on the BBC <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Available to UK users only.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/videos\/c5y81vnrxx7o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than two decades after a life-changing injury, former England Under-21 rugby star Matt Hampson is tackling his &#8220;Everest&#8221; at the 2026 London Marathon. Navigating the course in a custom racing chair while ventilator-dependent, he is supported by a dedicated team including former jockey Sir AP McCoy, with the aim to help other young people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}