Greg Allen
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481 appearances
34 recordings
5 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 17 Aug
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Well that's been a great uh European Championship, Sharon.
Obviously equaling the medal hall from Rome of four.
So that was a record, so it's equal the record.
We're on a trajectory, and I think the most important thing is that it's no longer the middle distances and the long distance races where we're we're getting this hall of medals.
It's you know, it's across a a very broad spectrum, Mark English eight hundred meters, Rashida Adelecki two hundred, like sprint medals at that level, you know.
gold and a silver and then you had the distance runner uh uh phenomenon as well is still continuing with Andrew Coskrin his uh uh bronze medal in the fifteen hundred meters.
So I I you know
It's fantastic obviously for for Ireland to be, you know, doing this.
And and obviously Kate O'Connor in the heptatling.
That's an extraordinary spread of of disciplines.
And this is really where Irish Athletics is now building towards.
To be a multidiscipline, strength country in sort of the European context.
And we can look at models like Switzerland, uh which is also a very successful country, Norway really doing well.
And it is very possible.
For small countries to punch above their weight if they have everything in place.
And slowly over the years we have done that and now pretty much we have some of the best scientific background uh for the athletes to draw upon and certainly we've got much better facilities than we've had, say, in those years past when we depended solely on on distance running mainly for our metal halls.
I yeah, I I I I have sort of different levels of uh joy uh in in in the commentaries that I do.
So there's a story behind them all.
Obviously the Mark English uh scenario of being a qualified medical doctor, putting his career on hold for seven years, and finally ascending the top of the podium uh is probably the one that just pips, you know, in terms of sheer impact, because this was uh coming for so long and yet it might not ever
Have happened.
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