{"id":206549,"date":"2025-11-29T13:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T13:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/206549\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T13:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T13:38:11","slug":"athletics-gave-me-everything-but-has-also-taken-everything-brian-gregan-on-his-unfulfilled-olympic-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/206549\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Athletics gave me everything but has also taken everything\u2019 \u2013 Brian Gregan on his unfulfilled Olympic obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">After announcing his retirement, the former 400m runner talks about the pitfalls of wanting something too much and making peace with disappointment\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brian Gregan and his wife Ciara McCallion \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gregan.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Brian Gregan and his wife Ciara McCallion <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It\u2019s probably no surprise that it took Brian Gregan 15 months from his last race to announce he\u2019s finished as an athlete at the age of 35.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Gregan doesn\u2019t like quitting, never has. He was 10 when he got meningitis and was told it could have been fatal if he hadn\u2019t gone to Tallaght Hospital when he did. He was 16 when he tore his adductor muscle off the bone and was told by a specialist he may never do high-level sprinting again. Those aftershocks linger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After announcing his retirement, the former 400m runner talks about the pitfalls of wanting something too much and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,12392,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-206549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sinead-kissane","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115633265505329918","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}