Greg Allen
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481 appearances
34 recordings
5 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 17 Aug
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Oh, it's a huge factor, probably the biggest travelling support to any uh major athletics championships.
In fact, I don't think it's a probably it's just going to be.
Um I saw a statistic last week uh came out of Athletics Ireland that uh twelve percent of the tickets have gone to Irish addresses, which is extraordinary.
So one in every eight people here is is going to be Irish.
And then of course you have uh the diaspora here uh in Birmingham in and in Britain.
Uh so I think it's gonna be a huge Irish support.
The Irish athletes have always leaned very heavily into that support and uh and it's a very vociferous, very obvious support.
There'll be plenty of Irish flags and it's I think it's going to be a real, real factor.
So uh one particular uh agency alone has thirteen hundred coming on their behalf and that doesn't include those who are coming along on their on their own steam.
Yes, we could.
Uh we could also see no Irishman in the podium because that's uh athletics for you.
But there is this extraordinarily tantalizing prospect of two Irishmen in the podium, and there's really good reason for that.
Mark English is the fastest in Europe this year.
And Mark English, by the way, is 33 years old.
He qualified as a doctor in 2019, and he's put his career on hold because of this extraordinary talent that he has.
He was fifth in the world junior.
Final, I think it was 14 years ago, and he's always had this talent, and it's somewhat bubbled to the surface late in his career.
Uh he has made some uh very strong uh coaching changes, uh a different uh way of going about his uh his training, and it's really paid dividends.
And he has his record as well of having reached five European finals and taken a medal from all of those, but none of them have been gold.
And you know, he has a chance of a medal, and he
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