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 recently broke Zola Budd’s national under-20 indoor 3,000m record by a staggering 16 seconds to earn selection for the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, is asked about how she travelled to the Netherlands.