Noble: 'We just need to get out of Adeleke's way and not interfere'

Truth is plenty of kids bloom at underage without showing the same colours at the elite level. Not Adeleke.

SPRINT QUEEN: Rhasidat Adeleke of Texas celebrates. Pic: ©INPHO/Brendan Maloney

Gavin Noble saw Rhasidat Adeleke turn heads long before the sprint sensation lit it up in a green singlet at last year’s European Championships in Munich, or with the University of Texas on the NCAA circuit.

A London 2012 Olympian in triathlon, Noble is chef de mission for Team Ireland for the upcoming European Games in Poland and for next year’s Olympics in Paris, and he held the same post in 2019 at the European Youth Olympics in Baku.