McColgan is worried that there is too much emphasis on the short-term in the athletics world:

"All of the major sporting organisations are interested in medals at major championships, and I suppose that a 15-year-old isn't a high priority when you're trying to get the medal count up so that you look good in the press. But if we don't change our attitude and start developing potential then we're not going to tap into what they really can do.

"I think there's a major problem with our attitude to coaching youngsters. A lot more work has to be done in providing for our talented youngsters - and that means from the age of 15, not 18. Our attitude is to let them go through all the problems of growing up and if they're still in the sport when they're 18, then we'll coach them. So there's a gaping hole in the coaching of talented 15-year-olds."