E50: Ray Flynn - Irish Mile Record Holder, Olympian and Agent

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

It’s with a heavy heart that we wave au revoir to Paris for the Olympics, but what a thrilling anthology of racing stories it’s written for us.

Not only do we debrief all the quintessential moments from the games on Marathon Talk this week, but off the back of THAT men’s 1500m, we speak with the agent for all three medal winners - Irish Mile Record Holder, Ray Flynn!

In this episode of Marathon Talk:

0:00 - This episode’s opening ceremony features Deena’s incredible experiences at the games in Paris, and which stories stood out to her and Martin throughout the games
11:05 - It’s a packed news round up this week with the best from Hassan’s stellar sprint in the marathon, 1500m rivalries, a look ahead to the Paralympics, and what YOU could qualify for in LA 2028…
37:35 - The agent for ALL the men’s 1500m medal winners, Olympian, and Irish Mile Record Holder Ray Flynn is our fabulous guest on the show, sharing the secrets behind managing three of the world’s top athletes

Marathon Talk is proudly powered by Abbott World Marathon Majors, who create, build and support opportunities for all to discover the power of the marathon community. Learn more at https://www.worldmarathonmajors.com/

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to episode 50, the Farrahton Talk, powered by Abbott World Marathon Major.
0:06.0	This week we look back at two epic Olympic marathons in Paris,
0:12.0	and we take a look at the likeliest sports you could qualify for
0:16.6	the next games in Los Angeles. There's news on the next stop for the age group World Championships and we talk to Irish
0:25.2	my still Irish my old world record holder and sports agent Ray Flynn on the success
0:32.1	of his athletes in Paris. Right, let's go.
0:40.8	Dina, Dina, Dina, you've been to Paris.
0:44.1	Come on, how was your French?
0:46.3	Oh, well, my French not so good.
0:48.8	But what a magical time that my entire family had in Paris when when the Olympics started and we were
0:56.2	watching at home in front of the television it looked electric and it delivered once we
1:02.2	landed there.
1:03.0	If the fans were fantastic and loud and really that was some of my greatest takeaways
1:10.3	was being in that stadium and there was the great like Sydney McLaughlin Rovroni
1:16.8	world record where she just I thought it would be a really great match up between her
1:21.5	and she just blew the doors off of everybody.
1:26.5	It was so surprising.
1:28.4	But one of my favorite takeaways was that same night, we were in the stadium with this enormous Pakistani crowd around us like
1:37.6	waving their flags when Arshad Nadeem launched his first throw in the javelin, broke the Olympic record by three meters,
1:49.7	and they went ballistic.
1:52.6	And so our hearts just swelled up with them.
1:55.8	And so we were cheering him on and clapping every time
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from World Marathon Majors, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of World Marathon Majors and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.