‘I wish we’d taken the train’: athlete Innes FitzGerald welcomes Thunberg comparisons
18-year-old British runner looks up to ‘inspirational’ activist but plans to do talking on track this weekend
Innes FitzGerald is a young athlete on a mission: to win medals for Britain while saving the planet. While most sports stars are media trained to say as little as possible, the 18-year-old from Devon is refreshingly bold in her beliefs – and her determination to make a difference.
That much is clear when FitzGerald, who this year has lowered Zola Budd’s longstanding indoor 3,000m record by a staggering 16 seconds on her way to earning selection for the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, is asked about how she travelled to the Netherlands.