Across the length and breadth of her international career – which spans almost 25 years and counting – there have been many moments when Fionnuala McCormack left those watching in awe.
One I often recall was the 2019 World Cross Country in Denmark. McCormack had given birth to her first daughter just six months before and halfway through the race, as she moved into the top-20, I ran into Valentijn Trouw alongside the course – a Dutch manager of several world-beating Kenyans, among them marathon legend Eliud Kipchoge and 1500m queen Faith Kipyegon.
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